Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

A faint hairline scratch through the portrait and also a minor scuff in the frost at ME of AMERICA. Smooth, frosty luster and excellent detail barring

Lustrous.

Close inspection with a magnifying glass on this rare D-mint coin reveals stripping of the surface and light polished effects. Still acceptable for th

A few tiny marks and hairlines; struck from lightly clashed dies. The luster is complete and romps across the surface with warm golden color.

Some minor weakness along portions of the rim on either side where the dentils flatten out (this is commonplace among gold dollars). Plenty of luster

With a small mintage of 13,280 pieces, the 1857-C is very scarce (although not a major rarity) in the gold dollar series. Liberty, the wreath, the dat

Short pin line in the hair; rippled surface is mainly noticeable on the reverse of this scarcer D-mint issue. Also cleaned. Won't somebody put i...

Some luster within and around the main devices; smooth "old gold" surfaces point to uncleaned originality. Turning your attention to this ...

Both sides extensively hairlined from the cleaning. Weak details on the portrait; weak centers; yet a scarce date in spite of all that. If you are coo

It seems the consignor of these rare date Gold Dollars had a penchant for acquiring "interesting" specimens -- as the NCS holders show -- ...

This low mintage date (5,235) has some faint parallel die striation lines in the fields on both sides, the result of die polish. Liberty is strongly i

Of the 1859-D gold dollar just 4,952 were struck. None were intentionally saved at the time, and thus survival of high-grade pieces is a matter of cha

Smoothed, satin-polished effect, but the devices and fields are quite clean. Scarce Dahlonega Mint issue.

Lustrous.

Polished.

Flatly struck on the hair and topmost fluffs of Liberty's headdress; uneven rims as always along with weak details at UN of UNITED which are blo...

There are several fine hairline-wide pin scratches in the left obverse field; the usual insufficient pressure from the dies also left behind weak rim