1885-CC $20 MS(PCGS#9004)
1885-CC $20 MS (PCGS#9004)
February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2207
- 等级
- AU58
- 价格
- 226,911
- 详细说明
- Splendid honey-gold surfaces are adorned with vivid pinkish-rose highlights. Near-fully lustrous with virtually complete striking detail also remaining, it is difficult for us to imagine a more inviting Choice AU example of this challenging issue.<p>Only 9,450 double eagles were coined at the Carson City Mint in 1885, by far the smallest production of any $20 from this facility during the 1880s. This is the final Carson City Mint double eagle coinage until 1889-CC; the fabled frontier mint struck no coins of any denomination from 1886 to 1888. Q. David Bowers' 2004 estimate of 275 to 400 circulated examples seems to have stood the test of time and, indeed, this issue is elusive even at the VF and EF levels. At the threshold of Mint State, as here, the 1885-CC is rare and always in demand among advanced collectors of double eagles and Carson City Mint coinage.