Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

This is a remarkably lustrous coin whose reddish-gold features are alive with rich mint frost contrasted by near-prooflike fields. The fully detailed

Lightly worn on the highest waves of hair and the edge of the coronet, but some luster still evident around the stars, legends, and other major device

The luster is also superior for this lightly circulated issue, and moderately bright fields peer through rich flaming-gold coloration. Scarce.

By far the most available (hence, affordable) Type 2 issue in choice Mint State condition, this 1873 Open 3 twenty has smooth, rolling luster over bot

Nearly blinding with flaxen to metallic-gold patina over each side. An eye-appealing, radiant specimen despite the few abrasions, primarily in the fie

A little bit of rub on the high points traces to its few short years in circulation, as do the light (but not overly noticeable) marks in the fields a

One of a couple of high quality mint state double eagles with the CC mintmark consigned to the sale. Each side has a beaming reddish-gold centers that

NCS is an offshoot of the Numismatic Grading Service and puts its imprimatur on those coins with minor problems where an accurate grade is difficult t

Nice "old gold" color and surfaces, an uncleaned, original specimen of this inexpensive yet historic CC-mint date.

Lightly cleaned on the obverse resulting in numerous fine hairlines. Well struck with sufficient luster remaining to justify the grade and then some.

Very choice surfaces and color. If you are keen on owning a sharp CC-mint double eagle and are frightfully aware that the competition for these might

Study this nice, lustrous CC-mint twenty without saying a word. Then, when you are through, you will exclaim as we did, that it is one heck of an orig

Lightly toned; well struck with full obverse stars, hair curls, and coronet pearls.

Scattered light bagmarks including a noticeable one through the right wing of the eagle; a lustrous and fairly decently preserved twenty that has hues

Those who have made a study of early Carson City Mint double eagles ought to realize that nice, uncleaned specimens like the present toned EF45 are ju

The strike on this issue is nearly always decent, and the present Mint State 62 is no exception. The obverse is especially lustrous, there being a few

Jaw-dropping quality for an MS62 specimen: Each side has a warm orange-gold surfaces that are relatively free of grade-limiting marks. Clear-cut devic

Some old rust-brown toning in areas (from the underlying copper alloy in the gold, since gold itself doesn't tone or tarnish). Some luster prese...

Nothing blurred or weak about this smartly made twenty from the Carson mint, nothing at all: the devices are sharp with only a couple of rounded stars

If you are fortunate enough to view this coin in person, you will see wonderful detail in the main devices, original toning atop lustrous surfaces, an