Superior Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Beautiful semi-prooflike fields on both sides give a lovely background for the raised, satiny devices. Liberty is particularly choice. There are a cou

Lustrous with a semi-prooflike sheen on either side, well-struck and carefully preserved from rim damage or other harm in its 200 year trek through ti

Cleaned and the edge is filed, which may point to having been used in jewelry. A few scratches in the reverse, but free from the "sweated"...

Lightly cleaned. Scarce early date Ten. (#8581)

Lightly cleaned; minor rim damage on lower reverse. (#8595)

Still some prooflike surface evident. (#8597)

This, while a relatively plentiful issue, is nevertheless a very choice example. The cheek and face on Liberty are well above average while the color

Both sides are soaked in copper-gold iridescence that accents the ample remaining luster which is highly prooflike in the fields. This suggests to us

Low mintage rarity in this series replete with rare dates; a handsome coin that has very choice surfaces with gleams of luster in and around the stars

Cleaned. Only 3,780 pieces made. (#8649)<p><i>The Endangered Species Collection</i>

Very clean surfaces for the grade, the coin is barely touched by abrasions from its year or two spent in circulation. Luster throughout the legends an

Lustrous and frosty, of a quality that could no doubt be called AU-55 or AU-58 were it not for scattered abrasions; some 1868-S eagles in higher grade

Frosty and attractive with clean face but light hairlines in the fields. (#8706)

Two small dents in the forehead and a couple of slight marks near the mouth; satiny luster with light hairlines in the fields. (#8708)

The otherwise hazy gold color deepens to polychrome-gold shadings in select areas (#8709)

With 53,680 pieces minted, the 1887 Philadelphia mint emission is much scarcer than the common 1887-S. On the East Coast of the United States at this

But hairlines in the obverse luster (which is otherwise close to 90% frosty). A scarcer New Orleans mint issue. (#8713)

Lustrous gold color with a short scrape in the field and through the tip of the neck. (#8720)

Frosty with the usual assortment of small abrasions. (#8721)

Light bagmarks. There is a lovely interplay between orange-gold and reddish colors that give this the eye appeal of an even higher grade. Scarce New O