Lot 942
1858 $10 Liberty. NGC graded AU-58. Choice, copper-orange color and lots of mint frost. The surfaces show numerous abrasions, typical of a coin of this grade, but none are too heavy or worthy of mention. This date is one of the classic rarities in the Liberty Head $10 Eagle series. It starts out with a miniscule mintage of 2,521 pieces and just gets better from there on. Of the few dozen example known to exist, most are in circulated grades, and we mean heavily circulated. PCGS reports only 32 examples in all grades, including two monsters in MS-64 (quite possibly the same coin). The next highest grade reported by PCGS is a single AU-55! NGC also reports two Mint State examples, one in MS-64 (possibly the PCGS MS-64) and a single MS-61. The next highest grade is a single AU-58 -- this coin. Thus, at best, only two coins are better than the example offered here; at worst, only four!
Estimated Value $15,000 - 17,000.
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