Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 75

September Pre Long Beach

Budget - $1 Gold

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 954		1851. PCGS graded MS-62. Lightly toned (PCGS # 7513) Estimated Value $400 - 450 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $521
Lot 955		1853. PCGS graded MS-62. CAC Approved. Struck from slightly buckled dies (PCGS # 7521) Estimated Value $400 - 450 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $529
Lot 956		1853 NGC graded AU Details. Improperly cleaned (PCGS # 7521) Estimated Value $125 - 150 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $173
Lot 957		1856. Slanting 5. PCGS graded AU-58. Less than a year after the "Type 2" or Narrow Head dollars went into circulation, all concerned knew that the design must be changed: Specimens were already coming back to the Mint for recoinage, some with dates hardly legible. And many coins hot out of press had the same fault, adjust the presses as you will: weakness in centers so that obverses looked worn, dates blurry. As soon as Chief Engraver James Longacre could be spared from completing the experimental dies for the 1855 bronze pattern cents, Mint Director James Ross Snowden ordered him to begin work on a modified design for the gold dollar. Diameter would remain the same: Snowden, only a few years later, referred to the "evident evil" of simultaneously having in circulation two coins of the same denomination but different sizes. But the obverse head not only had to be of lower relief, it had to be arranged differently to avoid placing relief areas opposite reverse relief details wherever possible (PCGS # 7540) Estimated Value $220 - 240 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $276
Lot 958		1870. Holed and Sharpness of XF. Low mintage date. Estimated Value $70 - 80 View details and enlarged photos	Realized $104
Lot 959		A lot of $1 gold coins. Consist of: 1854 Type I (Fine Damaged); 1856 (VF Marks). Lot of 2 coins. Estimated Value $200 - 225 View details	Realized $242