Lot 2506
1852-O $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-61. A very attractive well struck specimen shimmering with rich, slightly greenish-golden luster. A beautiful High grade example. Frosty light yellow gold with considerable orange-tinted luster on both obverse and reverse, the reverse slightly choicer overall. Sharply struck, in fact, pleasingly so. Light hairlines and bagmarks, mostly on the obverse, indicate that this is graded accurately. Nevertheless, a coin that would qualify as one of the very finest known were it not for a few others in higher certified grade. A most desirable example of 1852-O. Pop 3; 6 finer in 62. (PCGS # 8907) .
The 1852-O twenty, while scarce overall, is one of the more easily obtainable early New Orleans Mint issues in circulated grades. After this year the double eagles from this mint range from very scarce to exceedingly rare. Most known 1852-Os are Very Fine or Extremely Fine, a familiar situation for double eagles of the decade except for some notable hoard coins (mainly from the San Francisco Mint). Uncirculated coins are all rare, and reside mostly at the lower end of the spectrum, some of the others likely to be evaluated as high-end About Uncirculated pieces by some observers.
Estimated Value $17,000 - 20,000.
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