1863 $20 MS(PCGS#8939)

The Regency Auction 42

拍卖行

Legend Rare Coin Auctions

批号

19

等级

MS62

价格

307,765

详细说明

THE BIGMO CIVIL WAR COLLECTION PART II Ex. S.S. Republic, as noted on the holder. This is a date that was virtually UNKNOWN in Mint State before the discovery of the S.S. Republic in 2003. With the recovery of the S.S. Republic treasure, a small number of Mint State coins have come on to the market, but they remain extremely RARE. Typical of the coins recovered from the shipwreck, this coin has an exceptional luster and strike. Both sides display swirling, radial cartwheel luster that rolls unbroken and undisturbed across the fields on both sides. For a coin graded "only" MS62, the luster is intense! A gorgeous yellow-gold hue is enhanced by the wonderful mint brilliance and it accents the sharply struck devices. A number of small, distraction are seen on the fields and on the devices, but they do not detract from the knockout, fully CHOICE eye appeal! A truly RARE Civil War double eagle that is excessively rare any finer. In 1863, a California adventurer and financier named Asbury Harpending traveled to Richmond with a scheme that would outfit members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a pro-slavery expansionist group that wanted to annex territories in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean to the United States as slave states, with a letter of marque. They would then convert a schooner named the J.M. Chapman as a Confederate privateering vessel in San Francisco Bay. Their objective was to raid commercial shipping and specie (gold and silver) transports along the Pacific Coast and bring it to support the Confederate government. The plot was detected and a combined force of the crew of the U.S.S. Cyane, federal revenue officers, and San Francisco police seized the operation. PCGS 9, NGC 0. The most recent example sold for $49,938 in May 2015, but prior to that, an example from the Gilded Age Collection, sold in the 2014 ANA auction, realized a very strong $76,375. The most recent MS62 was an NGC coin that brought $57,600 in the 2018 FUN Auction. The current Collectors Universe value is listed at $57,500 and keep in mind that there are just three graded finer, two in MS63 and a single MS64 (a coin that is now impounded in the Hansen Collection). This high end, beautiful example should bring a very strong bid! Good luck! Cert. Number 25787309 PCGS # 8939.00