2007 (ANA) Signature Coin Auction #444

<B>1912 $10 MS66 PCGS.</B></I> On January 6, 1912, New Mexico joined the Union as the 47th state. Arizona followed on February 14 ...

<B>1914-D $10 MS66 NGC.</B></I> The 1914-D eagle, with a mintage of 343,500 pieces, is an important condition rarity in the Indian...

<B>1915-S $10 MS65 NGC.</B></I> The low-mintage 1915-S (59,000 pieces) is one of the key dates to the Indian Head ten dollar gold ...

<B>1916-S $10 MS67 PCGS.</B></I> The 1916-S Indian Head ten dollar had a comparatively low mintage of 138,500 pieces. Since so man...

<B>1908 $10 Motto PR65 NGC.</B></I> This is an important proof issue, as the first one to showcase Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Ind...

<B>1914 $10 PR65 NGC.</B></I> Proof gold mintages dwindled to small numbers as World War I approached. Contemporary collectors nev...

<B>1854 $20 Large Date MS64 NGC.</B></I> It is uncertain when the Large Date variant of the 1854 twenty was discovered, but it had...

<B>1855-S $20 S Tilted Right MS62 PCGS.</B></I> Ex: <I>S.S. Central America</B></I>. One of the lesser encounter...

<B>1857-S $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> EX: <I>S.S. Central America</B></I>. Until the discovery of the <I>S.S. Ce...

<B>1857-S $20 Bold S MS65 PCGS.</B></I> Variety 20B. SSCA 3057. The Bold S reverse is paired with at least two different obverse d...

<B>1858-O $20 AU58 NGC.</B></I> The 1858-O double eagle, with a mintage of 35,250 coins, is considered to be of similar rarity to ...

<B>1859 $20 AU55 PCGS.</B></I> This issue's mintage of 43,597 pieces is low by Philadelphia standards of the era, and with col...

<B>1861-S $20 Paquet XF40 PCGS.</B></I> The stories of the Philadelphia and San Francisco Paquet double eagles of 1861 present an ...

<B>1861-S $20 Paquet--Rim Damaged, Cleaned--XF45 ANACS.</B></I> Anthony Paquet's modified reverse was only used on a limited n...

<B>1862-S $20 MS61 NGC.</B></I> In their reference work <I>An Insider's Guide to Collecting Type I Double Eagles</B&g...

<B>1865 $20 MS62 NGC.</B></I> Ex: <I>S.S. Republic</B></I>. Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth, in their <I>Encyclo...

<B>1866-S $20 No Motto AU53 NGC.</B></I> The mintage estimate for the 1866-S No Motto double eagle ranges from 12,000 to 120,000 p...

<B>1866 $20 MS61 PCGS.</B></I> This is a stunning Mint State example that represents the debut of the Type Two coinage, featuring ...

<B>1867-S $20 MS60 PCGS.</B></I> Like the other Reconstruction-era double eagles produced at the San Francisco Mint, this issue ha...

<B>1869-S $20 MS61 PCGS.</B></I> Despite its ample mintage, this issue, like most S-mint Type Two double eagles, presents a challe...

<B>1870 $20 MS62 PCGS.</B></I> It is seldom that this date is found in any grade, let alone Mint State. It is a surprising conditi...

<B>1871-CC $20 AU58 NGC.</B></I> Even though it is not an impossible rarity like its 1870 predecessor, the 1871 double eagle is el...

<B>1872 $20 MS64 NGC.</B></I> In his <I>Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins</B></I>, Q. David Bowers (2004) no...

<B>1872-CC $20 AU55 NGC.</B></I> The Carson City Mint struck 26,900 double eagles in 1872. Douglas Winter (2001) estimates that 35...

<B>1874 $20 MS62 PCGS.</B></I> Garrett and Guth (2006) offer a simple yet effective summary of this issue: "The 1874 double e...

<B>1875 $20 MS63 PCGS.</B></I> By Type Two double eagle standards, the 1875 is not particularly difficult. Still, each such issue ...

<B>1875 $20 MS63 PCGS.</B></I> Boldly defined and far less abraded than is normally seen on Uncirculated survivors. In fact, the s...

<B>1875 $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> Housed in an older green-label PCGS holder, this impressive near-Gem ranks among the finest existin...

<B>1875-CC $20 MS63 PCGS.</B></I> With a six-figure mintage and generally strong eye appeal, the 1875-CC is one of the double eagl...

<B>1876-S $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> The 1876-S double eagle has one of the largest mintages for a Type Two double eagle (1,597,000 pi...

<B>1877-CC $20 AU58 NGC.</B></I> This is the first Type III double eagle issue from the Carson City Mint. It had a low mintage of ...

<B>1879-CC $20 AU55 NGC.</B></I> The 1879-CC double eagle has one of the lower-mintage figures for coins produced at the Carson Ci...

<B>1884-S $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> A flashy phenom, this is a coin that just should not exist, yet here it is: a strictly graded Gem...

<B>1885-S $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> By 1886, commercial demand for double eagles on the West Coast was sated, and San Francisco struc...

<B>1888-S $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> The 1888-S double eagle can be easily located in grades ranging from About Uncirculated to Mint S...

<B>1891-CC $20 AU55 NGC.</B></I> The 1891-CC double eagle has a surprisingly low mintage, even by the standards of that Wild West ...

<B>1895-S $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> The Type Three Liberty double eagles, especially those coined in the last two decades of the 19th ...

<B>1896-S $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> This is the only MS65 example of the date that PCGS has ever certified, with just one finer piece...

<B>1897 $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> Even though the Philadelphia Mint produced almost 1.4 million examples of this issue, the present s...

<B>1897-S $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> A sharply detailed Gem that will find a ready audience among specialists bidding in this sale. Whi...

<B>1905 $20 MS63 PCGS.</B></I> The 1905 double eagle mintage (58,919 business strikes) was vastly reduced from previous years, and...

<B>1907-D $20 MS66 NGC.</B></I> The rose-gold coloration is enhanced by speckled accents of sunset-orange, and intense mint luster...

<B>1907-S $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> Like so many Liberty double eagles, this date is not particularly hard to locate if one can contro...

<B>1875 $20 PR63 Cameo PCGS.</B></I> The story of Mint gold in 1875 is one of incredible rarity. While mintages of the copper and ...

<B>1899 $20 PR63 Deep Cameo NGC.</B></I> From the original mintage of 84 pieces, Garrett and Guth (2006) opine that fewer than 30 ...

<B>1901 $20 PR61 Cameo ANACS.</B></I> 1901 was the last year that proof gold coinage was available with a frosted, two-toned cameo...

<B>1904 $20 PR64 Cameo NGC.</B></I> With an original mintage of just 98 specimens, the 1904 has a tiny mintage consistent with tha...

<B>1905 $20 PR63 Cameo NGC.</B></I> Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth (2006), make the following observations about the proof 1905 Liberty...

<B>1906 $20 PR64 Cameo PCGS.</B></I> In every instance, proof gold coins can be classified as rare, or even extremely rare. Even t...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 PCGS.</B></I> Though James Longacre's designs for select denominations outlived him, by...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 PCGS.</B></I> This lustrous Mint State High Relief double eagle is a wonderful example with...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC.</B></I> The Roman Numerals MCMVII on the obverse of the High Relief double eagle repre...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS62 NGC.</B></I> The wire rim (sometimes described as a "knife edge" or "fin&quo...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS63 PCGS.</B></I> When viewing a High Relief, it is obvious that the design was produced by a s...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS63 PCGS.</B></I> The 1907 High Relief Saint-Gaudens double eagle is a classic issue in America...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS63 PCGS.</B></I> Ex: Stecher Collection. A lovely green-gold representative of this American g...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS64 NGC.</B></I> A splendid near-Gem of this famous and coveted numismatic rarity. The straw-go...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS64 PCGS.</B></I> While Roger Burdette acknowledges the beauty of the Saint-Gaudens double eagl...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS65 NGC.</B></I> Augustus Saint-Gaudens built his artistic reputation on grand-scale public and...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS65 NGC.</B></I> So much attention is focused on the obverse of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' num...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS69 PCGS.</B></I> Frank A. Leach was superintendent of the U.S. Mint in San Francisco from 1897...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief, Flat Rim--Rim Filed--NCS. Unc Details.</B></I> In most cases, a filed rim occurs as someone attempts to d...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief PR66 NGC.</B></I> It is fairly well known that Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the "American Michelangelo,&qu...

<B>1907 $20 High Relief PR67 <img border='0' src='http://www.heritagecoins.com/images/star.gif' width=10 height=10> NGC....

<B>1908-D $20 Motto MS66 PCGS.</B></I> Like the earlier Liberty double eagles, there are several dates in the Saint-Gaudens series...

<B>1909-D $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> Between a rock-bottom mintage of 52,500 pieces and a poor overall survival rate (with just under ...

<B>1909-D $20 MS64 PCGS.</B></I> Large D Over Small D. Even though 20-30 Uncirculated coins have entered the market over the past ...

<B>1909-D $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> Lovely peach and lime hues confirm the originality of this highly attractive and fully lustrous Ge...

<B>1913 $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> The advanced specialist will want to give this rare and important Gem great consideration, as nearl...

<B>1915 $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> The 1915 twenty dollar, with its mintage of 152,000 business strikes, is readily obtainable in grad...

<B>1920-S $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> After a four-year hiatus since 1916, in 1920 both the Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints again ...

<B>1924-D $20 MS64 NGC.</B></I> For the Saint-Gaudens specialist, this is an important issue that is almost impossible to locate a...

<B>1924-D $20 MS64 NGC.</B></I> During the mid to late 1920s, the large quantities of double eagles produced at all three mints me...

<B>1924-D $20 MS65 NGC.</B></I> The Lincoln cent and Saint-Gaudens double eagle series share some unusual traits, when one stops t...

<B>1924-D $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> The 1924-D is one of the median rarities in the Saint-Gaudens series. It is similar in rarity to ...

<B>1924-S $20 MS67 PCGS.</B></I> This is a truly special coin, one that exemplifies the very definition of a one-of-a-kind “wonder...

<B>1925-D $20 MS66 PCGS.</B></I> Nearly 3 million double eagles were struck at the Denver facility in 1925. Many of these were sen...

<B>1925-S $20 MS63 NGC.</B></I> The large mintage of 3,776,500 pieces belies the rarity of the 1925-S, as most of the issue ended ...

<B>1926-D $20 MS61 PCGS.</B></I> Though it does not appear on many collectors' radars as a particularly elusive issue, the 192...

<B>The 1926-S was, at one time many years ago, considered to be among the rarest of the many elusive issues in this challenging series--and th...

<B>1927-S $20 MS66 PCGS.</B></I> The 1927-S double eagle stands out as one of the rarest and best-known issues in the Saint-Gauden...

<B>1929 $20 MS65 PCGS.</B></I> Beginning with this date, all issues in the Saint-Gaudens double eagle series are notable rarities....

<B>1931 $20 MS66 PCGS.</B></I> The 1931 Philadelphia Mint double eagle is very rare today, and is one of the key issues in the ser...

<B>1931-D $20 MS66 PCGS.</B></I> Ex: Price. With a minimal knowledge of American history, one could easily predict that there woul...

<B>1907 $20 Small Edge Lettering PR64 NGC.</B></I> <B>1907 $20 Large Edge Lettering PR64 NGC.</B></I> Arabic Num...

<B>1912 $20 PR67 NGC.</B></I> The U.S. Mint first made matte proof gold coins in 1908. Despite earlier criticisms from the collect...

<B>1900 $1 Lafayette Dollar--Cleaned, Retoned--ANACS. MS60 Details.</B></I> DuVall 4-E. Presumed unique, the only known survivor f...

<B>1900 $1 Lafayette Dollar MS66 <img border='0' src='http://www.heritagecoins.com/images/star.gif' width=10 height=10> ...

<B>1936 SET Columbia PDS Set MS64 to MS65 PCGS.</B></I> The set includes: <B>1936 MS65; 1936-D MS65;</B></I> and...

<B>1922 50C Grant with Star MS66 NGC.</B></I> Subtle lilac and gray toning is splashed with iridescent accents on this bold Premiu...

<B>1922 50C Grant with Star MS67 NGC.</B></I> Despite his perceived shortcomings as President, Ulysses S. Grant has received a num...

<B>1926 50C Sesquicentennial MS66 PCGS.</B></I> Ex: Bruce Scher Collection. This popular commemorative, struck to celebrate the on...

<B>1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Round--Altered Surface--NCS. Unc Details.</B></I> The Panama-Pacific Exposition was a huge ...

<B>1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Round MS63 NGC.</B></I> The main reason for the scarcity of the Pan-Pac fifties is the expe...

<B>1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Round MS64 NGC.</B></I> It is sometimes easy to overlook the fair or exposition commemorate...

<B>1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Octagonal MS61 PCGS.</B></I> Between their sheer size and overall scarcity, the fifty dolla...

1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Octagonal MS64 PCGS. It was said in 1915 that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was far more than mere

<B>1915-S $50 Panama-Pacific 50 Dollar Octagonal MS64 NGC.</B></I> Public celebrations are an age-old phenomenon. Two thousand yea...

<B>1917 G$1 McKinley MS67 NGC.</B></I> This Superb Gem specimen of the elusive 1917 McKinley gold dollar is tied for the finest ce...

<B>1926 $2 1/2 Sesquicentennial MS66 PCGS.</B></I> A delectable example of this popular gold commemorative, seldom seen finer as t...