Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Contains 1849 (with a curved planchet clip, as struck), 1850, 1851 (3), 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, and 1856. Grades range from VG8 to VF25, average F12

Choice glossy chocolate brown with frosty mint luster covering the protected areas. No notable defects. E-MDS. Excellent eye appeal.

Glossy medium brown and chocolate. There is a thin vertical nick right of star 3 and two horizontal ones under the left side of the N in CENT. E-MDS

Glossy chocolate and bluish steel brown. Frosty flowline luster covers the fields and protected areas. The only mark visible without a glass is a sm

Five points sharper with a fine pin scratch in the field over star 10 and a small rim nick at star 5, plus a trio of tiny rim nicks at the bottom of t

Frosty golden tan. The obverse is covered with microscopic specks of reddish chocolate toning, a small one right of star 4 the only speck visible wit

Mint red fading to steel brown, nearly half the red remaining, mostly on the obverse. Would rate a higher grade except for a dark olive stain at ERIC

Sharpness very near mint state but the obverse is covered with extremely fine hairlines with a similar scuff in the center of the reverse. These hair

Frosty medium brown with steel brown toning on the highpoints. A few light nicks in the field before the tip of the nose are the only marks. Sharply

Five points sharper with a very light rim bruise at star 12 and a half dozen spots of dark olive toning on the reverse, the largest of these at TA in