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1891-CC $20 MS62 PCGS

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:35,000.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1891-CC $20 MS62 PCGS
<B>1891-CC $20 MS62 PCGS.</B></I> The low mintage of just 5,000 pieces for the 1891-CC double eagle is the second lowest for any Carson City twenty dollar, trailing only the 1870-CC with its 3,789 coins. The 1891-CC is quite scarce in About Uncirculated, and rare in Mint State. Fewer than 50 Uncirculated examples have been certified by PCGS and NGC combined, all except one in MS60 to MS62.<BR> Douglas Winter, writing in his G<I>old Coins of the Carson City Mint</B></I>, contends that the 1891-CC exhibits excessively abraded surfaces, saying "this is one of the most heavily abraded of all Carson city gold coins (regardless of denomination) and any piece with only moderately abraded surfaces is in great demand." Winter further notes that representatives of this issue frequently possess copper spots and grease stains.<BR> The present MS62 example, while having a scattering of light, grade-defining contact marks, is far from being "excessively or heavily abraded." As such, it is an exceptional, high-end MS62 that is boldly struck and gives of pleasing luster from peach-gold surfaces that are imbued with traces of apricot and mint-green. This is a coin that is sure to please. Population: 4 in 62, 1 finer (11/07).<BR><BR><B>Coin Engraver:</B> James B. Longacre<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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