Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Light contact marks; brilliant golden frost on either side.

With attractive coppery red toning atop plentiful mint frost.

The strike on this low mintage 1879 issue is nearly always very sharp barring a little softness on the wreath's bow, and the present near-Gem is...

Light hairlines in the clearly prooflike fields. A nicely made, late-date, low-mintage coin (only 3,000 circulation strikes in 1879). Scarce.

A few light hairlines but these are almost overwhelmed by the blast of golden frost. A vibrant specimen.

Over the last one hundred years -- an immense span of time in the world of coin collecting -- the arrival of an 1875 Proof $3 at auction has given cat

Some light hairlines from years-ago cleaning but otherwise delightfully free of marks or signs of handling. The mintage on this little rarity is legen

Heart-stopping quality. Each side has a beaming yellow-gold devices surrounded by a nice field of glittering <I>full prooflike</I>surfac...

Graded About Uncirculated, this lovely specimen of the first design and year of the half eagle is a beautiful medium yellow gold. The obverse depicts

Stripped and lightly cleaned, this greenish gold half eagle has several shallow but noticeable hairline scratches in the reverse field. The obverse, o

A collector could be happy anywhere so long as he was in possession of this very rare coin that has likely been off the market for quite some time. Th

The Philadelphia Mint seemed to be operating in a state of disarray during the first few years, if the half eagles are any reflection of their operati

This lovely and lustrous specimen has the diagnostic two lumpy die breaks at ES O of STATES OF with some die crumbling also affecting TE of UNITED as

On the reverse of this variety, there are 13 stars arranged in an "arc", making it one of the more affordable varieties of the otherwise s...

Five die marriages were used to coin the 1800 Half Eagles, four of which share a common obverse die. While considered a common variety, not many are a

Lustrous, satiny to prooflike surfaces display rich pale gold and fresh iridescence, with the overall appearance greatly bolstered by cartwheel luster

Uncommonly smooth with fully metallic, golden-rose features. Struck with methodical precision throughout for this early issue including sharp stars, a

Pleasingly bright and lustrous, both sides are warmly colored in reddish-gold hues, the surface heavy with frost. The usual small luster breaks but no

The features have close to 95% frosty luster with only a trace of cabinet friction on the top of the cap, brow and brow curl, and top parts of the eag

Some faint old squiggly pin lines in the field, barely noticeable with the naked eye. Lustrous and attractive otherwise.