Superior Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction

Peach to tawny-gold in color with a bold strike, the surfaces reveal a few scattered obverse abrasions but are otherwise exceedingly choice for Mint S

Frosty. (#8884)

An important bidding opportunity for the Mint quality type collector, this Type One Twenty of the first year of issue is full-gold in color with frost

Rim damage; heavy surface abrasions. Your typical well-used early double eagle. Such heavy coins tended to get banged about pretty hard. (#8902)

Luster still resides within the hair curls and around the legends and devices of this generally well struck and attractively preserved $20 gold piece,

This piece has the usual abrasions in the fields and on the cheek, with light orange-gold toning and luster within the devices and surrounding the sta

Lustrous and very choice. A quality early No Motto twenty. Several small marks on the cheek and in the field before the eyes. (#8911)

Housed in a "PCGS Certified S.S. Central America Treasure" holder but ungraded by the grading service, this is a lovely (and lustrous) net...

Frosty orange-gold and reddish color is nicely layered over each side of this lustrous and carefully graded specimen. No doubt the lack of bagmarks wi

Part of the S. S. Central America shipwreck find, this is SSCA #1144 with Spiked Shield, variety 20A. The mint at San Francisco opened for busines

Heavy with mint frost but also well bagmarked. The Philly mint dates in the 1850s and early 1860s are generally much scarcer in high grade than the co

Some normal surface abrasions but no deep marks or rim bumps other than a few nicks on the upper cheek; lustrous and well struck. (#8932)

Ten to 20 points finer than average for this date. The 1865 is very rare in strict mint condition--this coin is held back by a scruff between stars 2

Ex Brother Jonathan shipwreck group. This frosty, bold-struck $20 likely traces to the hoard of the Brother Jonathan shipwreck that was sold by Bowers

Lovely brilliant surfaces awash in golden color with extensive frost (95% at least remains, though some areas are more muted than others). A well stru

A frosty specimen with lustrous though heavily abraded surfaces plus a decent strike for the San Francisco mint of the 1870s. The design on the type 2

Normal surface abrasions plus several pin scratches (the latter on the obverse) (#8967)

Lustrous around the main devices, this well struck example has a slight mark by the hair bun, but its clean surfaces elsewhere including Liberty'...

The 1875-CC is among of the most popular of all Type Two issues for its natural rarity of the CC-mint origin and because Mint States are just not all

Tinged in delicate golden-rose shades of gold. (#8998)<p><i>The Gonzaga Collection</i>