SGBH Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

A very nice example of the low mintage 1844 issue, with only 20,000 produced and rare survivors tending to be Good or Very Good at best. This piece ha

Cleaned but now toning a dull dove-gray color. Only 24,500 minted of the scarcer 1845 issue.

Nice original color.

Nicely toned. The first O-mint seated dollar, which was followed by only three others in 1850, 1859, and 1860. Scarce in this grade, a carefully grade

Medium gray surfaces with sharp design.

Cleaned at one time but allowed to tone. The 1848 is another low mintage year, with only 15,000 produced.

Attractive surfaces with only a few areas of roughness on the rim by Liberty's foot; the reverse has several rim bumps showing.

A gorgeous Proof 64 example whose surface is deeply toned, impressive in the way the glittering fields reflect the light back at the viewer. Devices a

Minor scratch in the right obverse field.

Cleaned. The first instance of a silver dollar minted at the recently opened San Francisco Mint, whose operation produced a mere 20,000 1859-S silver

Scarcer than the O-mint examples since these weren't part of the Treasury hoard release in the 1950s and 1960s. Most 1860 seated dollars in Mint...

Only 1,000 Proofs were minted, of which a fair number were later melted at the mint as unsold. This example with stunning color, although it has proba

A well struck coin in spite of its few problems.

Low mintage date from the Civil War period, much of the 78,500 mintage quickly disappeared into hoards or was exported, later to be melted down.

A crisply struck and well detailed 1862 seated Liberty dollar, one of a mere 12,090 pieces struck. While it has been dipped, given sufficient time and

Having learned its lesson for the extra seated Liberty dollar Proofs that remained unsold in 1860 and 1861, the mint reduced production in 1862 to jus

Soft muted gray surfaces as though it has been cleaned gently at some time in the past, this is another scarce Civil War era piece, one of only 27,660

Choice attractive surface characterize this well made Proof. The toning is fresh, original, and becoming while the surface displays only light hairlin

A incandescent and sparkling semi-prooflike gem whose satiny beauty comes with fully defined design features plus a torrent of varying brilliant hues

Well struck features with plenty of design detail evident. The high spot on the obverse is the word LIBERTY which even on EF or AU quality pieces is s