Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

One of a pair of delightful Proof 64s struck in sixty-five, the year the Civil War came to its conclusion, the year Lincoln was shot, the year the nat

Satiny, lustrous devices display pale white iridescence on the obverse and just as shimmering brightness on the reverse. Choice mirrors throughout wit

Highly lustrous and fundamentally brilliant as the day it was made with white frosted highlights on both sides. Ever so fully struck, with just the fi

A satiny gem of the finest order. Explosive mirror-deep luster graces the brilliant silvery surfaces. Sharply struck for the date, easily finer in sha

A glittering gem with spectacular mint sparkle and lively frosted highlights. Typical sharp strike for the date in Proof, meaning that it is decidedly

Nearly perfect surfaces with decided prooflike mirrors on both sides. After hanging around the bourse floors of America's largest coin conventio...

Both sides display the typical "look" for this P-mint delivery: thickly frosted surfaces, rolling cartwheel effects, and boldly struck dev...

Nicely toned.

Lightly toned..

The satin surfaces ripple with original luster. The coin is attractively yet still very silvery. The only contact mark appears on the neck below the r

Deep-grained satin luster graces this well-presented and fully struck example. Well-toned and attractive, this coin's sharp-edged devices and le...

A first-rate Gem with original, toning originality from impressive pristine surfaces.

Frosty fields blessed with cartwheel luster. The more matte designs stand out nicely against this brilliance. Original toning, with plenty of underlyi

The surfaces are nicely toned while underneath the lovely mint frost that swirls around both sides. Devices as "sharp as a two-edged sword"...

This delightfully toned Gem comes to us in the same consignment as the 1896 quarter dollar graded NGC Proof 66, and has the same exactness of strike b

A blazing beauty of a gem! The sleek mirror surfaces are afire with bright electric blue to supporting dusky lavender-gray hues. July 4, 1902 was t

Featuring deep original toning atop very choice mirror-fresh surfaces. Full, bold transfer from the die to planchet is seen in the leaves and cap; all

Well-detailed with extraordinary deep gem mirrors and the soft whiteness of the devices that capped it off.

It isn't a case of "but" -- once you view this beautiful blazing 1916 dime you will know exactly what you want to buy for your Mercury...

Fully lustrous - an important and rare feature for this not all that well preserved key issue -- the surfaces display dominant pearl-white satin color

(SEGS graded MS64 FSB.) The wide disparity in grades between the holder and our own estimation can be found merely in the slight friction on the topmo

We shave a point off the Numistrust MS66 grade only because the luster, while complete and frosty, doesn't quite have the same snap and sparkle,...

A frosty Gem with brilliant, lightly toned surfaces and a powerful strike. Sharp-edged devices and lettering throughout include the key horizontal cro

Put on your boxing gloves, for you are about to encounter fierce bidding competition for this remarkable Stokely Collection specimen. Unusual for 1926

Another well struck gem housed in an early, pre-1989 holder. Delicate golden color over sparkling white frost. The strike as keen as a razor on this 1

The surfaces are a classy silvery fresh, with subtle rather than bright luster due to the overlay of original toning.

Nicely toned. A gem.

It appears this lovely gem was kept aside for just one reason: it's extraordinary beauty. Sure to please even the most world-weary buyer.

A blazer

Mintage unknown, but clearly a small percentage of the massive issue of over 205 million dimes struck this year. Always turns head when shown, the 2 o

This is the one, the only, the <I>finest NGC certified</I> 1942-D Mercury dime. Incredible surfaces with lovely amber red toning at the ...

Lightly toned, heavily stamped by the dies giving it a bold impression. This gem Proof comes to you in a pre-1989 "first generation" gradi...

A sparkling gem with intense underlying luster that breathes fiery life into the nicely toned highlights. Boldly struck with crisp details aplenty.

A mirror-smooth gem with faint sky blue to natural old-silver surfaces that explode atop the bright and hard-working reflection beneath. Excellent sha

Frosted glass luster and impressive fields are present, in part due to the natural way it toned in the celluloid sleeve in which it came from the mint

This is part of a nice consignment of splendidly toned, undipped coins, with this piece resplendent in every way. The Proof coins offered to collector

Features attractive deep steel blue toning over immaculate surfaces.

Weakly impressed detail on Liberty's clothing near the shield; strong relief elsewhere. Lustrous; lightly toned.

Gently cleaned so that it takes some imagination to see the effects; lovely toning with luster throughout.

Dusky gray to smoke and gold toning, the color ripened over many decades it seems, to where the underlying surface is more than amplified by the natur

Cleaned long ago, now deeply toned. As the only issue in the Draped Bust, Small Eagle Quarter series, the 1796 is a must-have coin for the serious typ

Some tooling on the eagle may have been done to remove some scratches or graffiti. The surface of this rare one-year Type coin is moderately porous an

A satiny golden gray to steel blue example with a vivid display of rich iridescence on both sides from the free-flowing luster. Struck with exactitude

A resplendent specimen with smooth if muted underlying luster that breathes life into the highlights; all surfaces carry a medium-deep shade of old-si

Smooth, even wear with natural, speckled old-silver gray patina.

Early bust coinage is very rare in mint state grades, and extremely rare in certified choice grade as seen here. The coin sports lovely steel blue to

Attractive deep steel to gunmetal toning with iridescence and copious amounts of underlying frost. Perhaps the tarnish streak (from an impurity in the

Outstanding luster and color on this historic Bust Quarter, one of the early Large Size bust quarters struck from 1815 through 1828 and seldom offered

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