Lot 3599
1870 $3 Gold. PCGS graded Proof 64 Deep Cameo. This is the only 1870 Three dollar gold coin graded Deep Cameo by PCGS! Check out the contrast between the devices and fields. Ankle deep frost on Liberty with the mirrored fields showing the familiar deep orange peel texture. Obviously, this coin was one of the first of 35 struck, as the deep cameo frost only lasts for the first couple struck by the dies. Identifiable by a tiny lint mark below the bust near the rim, and another below the first T of STATES, and on the reverse by a tiny planchet flake below the ribbon, which lead us to believe with reasonable certainty that this is the coin we sold in our Brady Bloch Sale in September 1999. Currently in PCGS holder #50003486. An epic coin worthy of the finest collection in the land. In the last decade, we were only able to trace two offerings of this date, one in the Trompeter Sale of 1992, the same coin reappeared in the Michael Keston Sale, both by Superior, and the Brady Bloch coin.
Estimated Value $18,000 - 22,000.
From our Brady Bloch Collection sale, September 1999, lot 1721.
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