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Lot 0590 1925-S $20 St. Gaudens PCGS MS63

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150,000.00 USD
Lot 0590 1925-S $20 St. Gaudens PCGS MS63
This is a choice coin and it will provide hours of enjoyment for anyone fortunate enough to own it. As expected from a San Francisco issue, the mint luster is full, glittery and frosted. The 1925-S puts forward a dilemma to collectors of the Saint-Gaudens series. It has the third loftiest mintage at greater than 3.7 million pieces produced, and yet happens to be one of the rarities in the series. As seems likely, 300 pieces or so are extant. This cluster in MS60-63 range, however, and there is a quick drop in availability above this level. For the collector of high grade coins, that means it would be advisable to buy it when presented since a choicer coin may not occur for many years.

The 1925-S is similar in condition rarity to the 1924-S and 1926-D, although it is not the rarity that the '26-D is when lower grades are taken into the census. The 1925-S, like its '26-D counterpart, less in holdings of double eagles from European sources than other branch mint $20 gold pieces of this decade, explaining in great part why these two are so difficult to acquire.