No Cereal Here The United States Assay Office of Gold ceased coinage operations at the end of 1853, making way for the opening of the San Francisco Mint in 1854. The new branch mint was unable to start coining immediately, READ MORE
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1921 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle NGC AU58
Very Rare, Nearly Mint State The 1921 Saint-Gaudens double eagle is one of the major rarities in the series, despite an innocuous-sounding mintage of 528,500 coins. But the issue is the only gold coin the United States struck during the READ MORE
1877-CC $20 Liberty AU58 PCGS
Elusive Widely circulated at the time, many of the 1877-CC $20’s ended up in overseas shipments and have extensive surface scratches – the specimen on offer today has a minimum of surface distractions and sports considerable luster and eye appeal. READ MORE
1839-D Classic Quarter Eagle NGC AU58
Rare, Nearly Unc. The Dahlonega Mint opened for business in 1838, for the purpose of providing a coinage facility for miners of Southern gold and to service the local economy. As a result, coins produced at the Georgia branch mint READ MORE
1857-O Liberty Double Eagle NGC AU58
1857-O Liberty Double Eagle NGC AU58 Although the 30,000-piece mintage of the 1857-O Liberty double eagle would be considered small in almost any other series, it was actually a significant increase over the production totals of the previous three years READ MORE
1855-O Liberty Eagle NGC AU58
A Flashy O-mint $10 Lib Only 18,000 eagles were minted in New Orleans throughout 1855, as gold coin production shifted to the new San Francisco Mint, which had opened the previous year. Apparently, very few were saved as this issue READ MORE
1854 Small Date $20 NGC AU-58 Mint Error Obverse Strike Through
Twenty Dollar gold pieces have long been popular with collectors with Type 1 pieces such as the one being presented today the most sought after. On top of this coin being in impressive AU-58 condition, it is a mint error. READ MORE
1854 Kellogg & Co. $20 NGC AU58
The California economy suffered from an acute shortage of coinage after the United States Assay Office closed in late 1853, until the San Francisco Mint began coinage operations on a large scale in 1854. Even after the Mint was officially READ MORE