1888-S $20 MS(PCGS#9009)
1888-S $20 MS (PCGS#9009)
February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2209
- 等级
- MS62
- 价格
- 21,818
- 详细说明
- Delightful rose-orange surfaces are further adorned with billowy mint frost. A smartly impressed and inviting BU example. A mintage of 859,600 double eagles was recorded for the San Francisco Mint in 1888, amounting to a face value of $17,192,000. The vast majority of these probably served extensively in the daily needs of commerce, while others were used for overseas trade or kept on reserve for the redemption of paper currency. Back in 1982, David W. Akers reported appearances of Uncirculated examples in only about 10% of the major auction sales examined by him while preparing his celebrated double eagle opus. He regarded the issue as "moderately scarce" in Mint State. In subsequent years, the number of Mint State examples increased dramatically, though they remain scarce any finer than MS-62.