Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 32

Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction

Silver Three Cent Pieces

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1562		1852 Silver Three Cents. NGC graded MS-66. A well struck frosty mint gem that is basically untoned. Estimated Value $900 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,265
Lot 1563		1862 Silver Three Cents. PCGS graded MS-66 PQ. 1st generation holder. A white gem bounded at the rim by warm golden brown toning. Pop 86; 11 in 67 (PCGS # 3680) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,300. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,840
Lot 1564		1881 Nickel Three Cents. NGC graded Proof 66. Nice lightly toned example of this inexpensive Type date. A gem. Pop 208; 7 in 68; 41 in 67; 2 in 67 star (PCGS # 3777) . Estimated Value $600 - 650. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1565		1881 Nickel Three Cents. PCGS graded MS-65. Splendid uniform light lilac toning on both sides. A spot-free gem (PCGS # 3749) . Estimated Value $500 - 550. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $776
Lot 1566		1883 Nickel Three Cents. NGC graded Proof 68. An absolute pristine gem, untoned and as fresh as the day it was minted! Building a top quality Registry Set? Population of 3 with none higher. Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,400. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $4,830
Lot 1567		1883 Nickel Three Cents. NGC graded Proof 66 Cameo. Nice lilac covers the surface as it glows with nickel-blue iridescence throughout. A first-class Cameo Gem! Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $920
Lot 1568		1883 Nickel Three Cents. PCGS graded Proof 65. Old green holder. Lovely gold, lilac toning. Worth a premium for the lovely toning. Total of 6,609 Proofs issued this year (PCGS # 3779) . Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1569		1885 Nickel Three Cents. PCGS graded Proof 65. Old green holder. Nice even toning. A scarce issue with only 3,790 Proofs reported. Beautiful gems always attract bidders and collectors, as this one certainly will (PCGS # 3781) . Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1570		1889 Nickel Three Cents. PCGS graded Proof 66 PQ. 1st generation holder. Very frosty devices on this nicely toned Proof. Pop 234; 45 in 67; 1 in 68 (PCGS # 3786) . Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $891
Lot 1571		1866 Shield Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 63. Some mnor flyspecks. Very choice with light toning. Shield nickels were not introduced until the summer of 1866, by which time many had ordered Proof sets and singles, but not of this denomination. The Mint announced that Proofs could be acquired singly for 10¢ each, and over a period of time several hundred were sold in this manner, but not nearly as many as would have been the case had they been offered in January. Today the 1866 shield nickel is important for its status as the first year of the denomination and also as the only affordable Proof issue of this two-years-only with-rays style. Pop 30. (PCGS # 3817) . Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,600. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,530
Lot 1572		1868 Shield Nickel. NGC graded MS-62. Natural nickel-gray patina with decent strike on the main devices (PCGS # 3795) . Estimated Value $110 - 125. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $92
Lot 1573		1877 Shield Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 65 Cameo. Popular proof only date. Warm nickel gray to faintly golden brown surfaces exhibit intense cartwheel luster and a satiny, matte-like to mirrored appearance often found on the Proofs this year. A resplendent Gem! (PCGS # 83831) . In September of 1873 a depression gripped the nation; layoffs, wage cuts, breadlines, and evictions increased; thousands and thousands suffered during the winter through 1874. In 1874, the unions tried to organize workers, demanding higher wages and shorter workdays but with little success. By 1877, roughly 3 million people were unemployed - an astounding 27 percent of the working population. Those who were able to keep a job worked six months a year and their wages were cut by about 45 percent, which works out to be roughly 1 dollar a day, little reason, therefore, to put aside a nice fresh Proof shield nickel as a luxury purchase. Estimated Value $3,100 - 3,400. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,795
Lot 1574		1883 Liberty Nickel. Without "CENTS". NGC graded Proof 67 Ultra Cameo. Pop 1. Finest graded by NGC. PCGS has also graded one example as PF67 Deep Cameo. A very popular one year type coin and very much in demand. A sleek and lustrous monster of a coin with a nuance of faint champagne on both sides. The strike is diamond-sharp and complete, including the lower left ear of corn in the wreath. Talk about eye-appeal! Estimated Value $7,500 - 8,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $12,075
Lot 1575		1883 Liberty Nickel. With "CENTS". PCGS graded Proof 65 Deep Cameo. Nice light golden toning. A high degree of mirror luster spins gracefully underneath the golden surfaces of this bright and exciting gem. The strike is crisp in most places, and we see only a single small line in the field by the face, with an faint scuff in the frost of the cheek also faintly present (PCGS # 93881) . Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,300. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,450
Lot 1576		1895 Liberty Nickel. MS-63. Lightly toned and attractive. Estimated Value $150 - 170. View details	Realized $748
Lot 1577		1897 Liberty Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 67 Cameo. Flashy bright example. An extraordinary gem in all respects, the luster is bold and unyielding, while flashy original highlights blossom on both sides. The strike is bold, indeed, as bold as ever seen on virtually any date in the Liberty nickel series (PCGS # 83895) . Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1578		1901 Liberty Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 66 PQ. Well struck and quite flashy with glittering silvery-blue toning and a band of light gold across the obverse. This beauty is absolutely spot-free and is worthy of our Premium Quality designation (PCGS # 3899) . Estimated Value $800 - 900. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1579		1907 Liberty Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 65. Old green holder. Nice lilac toning with shimmering proof surface below providing a smooth background for the needle-sharp devices. From first to last a classy looking Gem Proof (PCGS # 3905) . Estimated Value $350 - 425. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,150
Lot 1580		1912 Liberty Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 66. Lovely rainbow toning. Worth extra for the colors. The strike is 100%, the fields smooth and glossy, and the entire coin has incredible charm and character far superior to many of its type. Watch the bidder cards fly when the auctioneer starts the bidding! (PCGS # 3910) . Estimated Value $600 - 750. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,553
Lot 1581		1915 Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 64. Well struck and untoned. A desirable near-gem with sleek, glossy surfaces plus a powerful strike. The 1915 has an original mintage of just 1,050 pieces. By the time the mint delivered them, the public was so out of favor with this style of Proof coinage that a number of examples had to be melted as unsold at year's end. In terms of total number of coins left, the 1915 is scarcer than the 1914 (PCGS # 3992) . Estimated Value $850 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,265
Lot 1582		1917-D Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-65 PQ. Pop 103; 12 in 66. A glittering apricot to golden brown gem with heavy luster from worn dies, a typical strike, yet in spite of this with eye appeal that just won't quit! (PCGS # 3935) . Estimated Value $3,200 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,795
Lot 1583		1917-D Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64. Very choice and frosty. A glittering example of this mid-level Mint State with smooth luster and conventional nickel-gray to golden toning highlights. Typical strike 1917-D, somewhat soft at the head and shoulder area of the reverse, and also over the hair above the braid, but still choice where physical quality is concerned (PCGS # 3935) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1584		1918-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64. Lightly toned. Normal strike for the issue, but with plentiful smooth luster underneath the russet brown to nickel-blue and dull lavender color. Very scarce today since most of the issue found its way into circulation (PCGS # 3940) . Estimated Value $6,600 - 7,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1585		1920-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64 PQ. Pop 216; 15 in 65; 1 in 66. Smooth cartwheel luster graces satiny and lively deep reddish golden to natural light brown surfaces. Varying hues of color mingle broadly with the underlying luster. An attractive gem that has typical soft centers for the date (PCGS # 3946) . What appears as weak striking on buffalo nickels and other United States coins of the 1910s and '20s is caused by a combination of factors. In some instances the dies were set too far apart to make a complete impression. This was done as an economy measure to reduce wear on both the dies and press and to thus extend their useful life. Such economy was practiced even more vigorously during the 1920s, as the budgets of most governmental departments were slashed by the parsimonious Harding and Coolidge administrations. The buffalo nickel was a coin of relatively high relief, and it did take quite a toll on the dies. These wore rapidly, and such erosion is often evident on the actual coins. The reverse dies in particular were used too long, as they didn't need to be discarded at the end of each calendar year. The combination of increased die-set distances and worn dies produced the mushy, sometimes disappointing coins so often seen in this series. (For a detailed account of this fascinating series, read David W. Lange's The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels. Estimated Value $5,500 - 6,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $6,153
Lot 1586		1920-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64. Quite lustrous and naturally toned. A gorgeous specimen for the MS64 grade (PCGS # 3946) . It appears that even the artist who designed this piece, James Earle Fraser, preferred the familiar term "buffalo" to the more zoologically correct bison. Semantic aside, the model for the nickel's reverse is known to have been a bull named Black Diamond. This animal was then a resident of New York City's Central Park Zoo and was already about seventeen years old at the time. Fraser's own correspondence reveals his exasperation in attempting to keep this beast posed in profile as depicted on the coin. Evidently quite uncooperative, it insisted on confronting the artist head on and would return to this stance immediately after being corrected. Black Diamond has occasionally been cited as the model for the $10 United States Note of 1901, the so-called "buffalo bill." This attribution is incorrect, as the greenback actually portrays Pablo, a star attraction at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. This mistaken identity is understandable, as the $10 note was in use alongside the nickel through the late 1920s. (For a detailed account of this fascinating coin, see David W. Lange's The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels.. Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1587		1923-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-65 PQ. Magnificent. Well struck, delicately toned and spot-free. This sleek gem boasts spectacular luster and lively rose and golden toning highlights deepening to nickel and gray. A much sharper than average strike for the date, somewhat soft at the head and feather area of the obverse, but still spectacular where physical quality is concerned. PCGS reports 27 with only 2 rated better by a point (PCGS # 3950) . Estimated Value $8,000 - 9,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $9,775
Lot 1588		1923-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64 PQ. Intensely lustrous (PCGS # 3950) . Estimated Value $2,700 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1589		1925-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64. Intensely lustrous and delicately toned, the dappled apricot-gold color interspersed with shimmering silvery to sky blue iridescence. Spot-free and scarce at this grade level (PCGS # 3956) . Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1590		1927-D Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64 PQ. Pop 287; 45 in 65; 2 in 66. A satiny near-gem with a wealth of underlying luster on its medium champagne and brown surfaces. Nicely struck in many areas with normal incompleteness at the lowest outline of the shoulder pelt on the reverse and at the center of the Indian's hair near the braid. A lovely coin that comes close to MS65 quality (PCGS # 3961) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 1591		1927-S Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-64 PQ. Well preserved and gleaming with luster, although typically soft in areas. Spot free (PCGS # 3962) . The reverse of James Earle Fraser's five-cent piece is memorable in its profile view of a bison bull. In recalling this particular work, Fraser spoke of its unique character: "My first objective was to produce a coin which was truly American, and that could not be confused with the currency of any other country. I made sure, therefore, to use none of the attributes that other nations had used in the past. And, in my search for symbols, I found no motif within the boundaries of the United States so distinctive as the American buffalo." (For a detailed account of this fascinating coin, see David W. Lange's The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels.. Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $4,255
Lot 1592		1937 Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded Proof 67. Pop 329; 9 in 68; 1 in 69. A brilliant and extremely lustrous Superb Gem that has superlative fields and devices (PCGS # 3996) . Estimated Value $1,900 - 2,100. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,300
Lot 1593		1937 Buffalo Nickel. PCGS graded MS-67. Lovely rainbow toning on both sides and spot-free. PCGS reports 215 with 4 better by a point (PCGS # 3980) . Estimated Value $350 - 400. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,208
Lot 1594		1937-D Buffalo Nickel. 3 legs. NGC graded Fine-15. A pleasing problem-free example of this classic 20th century mint error. Estimated Value $625 - 675. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $730
Lot 1595		1938-D Buffalo Nickel. D over S. PCGS graded MS-65. Together with: 1938-D Buffalo (2) each PCGS MS-66. Each in a 1st generation holder. Lot of 3 coins. Estimated Value $150 - 299. View details	Realized $242
Lot 1596		Complete set of Buffalo Nickels 1913-1938-D. Includes the 1937-D 3 legged and lacks the 1918-D, 8/7. This is a very attractive looking set that will grade Very Fine to Uncirculated. Lot of 67 coins. Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000. View details	Realized $10,063
Lot 1597		1944-D Jefferson Nickel. NGC graded MS-67 Star. Well struck with virtually all the steps defined. It is the spectacularly gorgeous rainbow toning that sets this coin apart. Expect plenty of bidder action amongst connoisseurs of toned coins as this beauty could realize a run-a-way price. Estimated Value $500 - 700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $719