Lot 1641
1896-S $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. This beauty glitters with rich golden sunset mint bloom colors. A desirable representative of this late 19th century San Francisco Mint twenty, the surfaces do not reveal any sizeable abrasions. The strike is typically bold for the date with the intricately defined devices that characterize this Victorian era delivery. The color is a very pleasing shade (PCGS # 9030) .
The decade of the 1890s was a period of exceptional economic growth, and, in particular, of rapid wealth gains in the cities and hinterlands. The American explosion of trade and industry was at one of its zeniths, and cities were expanding rapidly. The decade saw an influx of immigrants to the United States from Europe and Asia, it was also a period of vast wealth for a newly emergent "society set". By the 1920s and continuing into the 1940s, American filmmakers had a nostalgic interest in the 1890s, as can be seen in the films "The Naughty Nineties," "She Done Him Wrong," "Belle of the Nineties" and "The Nifty Nineties."
Estimated Value $1,300 - 1,400.
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