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Item: 1928 Gold $20 PCGS, MS-64+ CAC

Category:

Category: Coins > $20.00 Gold > St. Gaudens

PCGS:

PCGS: 009189

Cert:

Cert: 145963361

Price:

Price: $3,625

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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #322 - Four Liberty Head quarter eagles, all PCGS MS-62
Hammer: $1,750
Gold $2.50-Liberty Head Quarter Eagle
Obviously original surfaces that offer both full bodied luster and mild traces of “mint dust” are readily apparent when looking over this four coin lot of PCGS certified quarter-eagle gold Liberties. Each of these consecutive year issues have been graded as MS-62 and are more than adequate for the assigned grade. This run includes a 1902, a 1903, a 1904, and a 1905 example that are each housed in older generation holders. Unmolested gold type like this is becoming increasingly difficult to find in today’s marketplace (ck).

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11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #428 - 1857 PCGS MS-64+ TOP POP
Hammer: $20,500
Gold $5-Liberty Head Half Eagle
2 graded MS-64+, zero higher at PCGS, thus placing claims as the "finest known" 1857 five-dollar gold piece. NGC has never graded one above MS-63+, affirming the extreme rarity of choice and better examples. That so few survive seems surprising given a not-so-high but reasonable mintage of 98-thousand coins.

Tilting the coin back and forth beneath good lighting reveals exactly the kind of gleaming, satin-textured flowline effect one expects as the mint had ample experience striking superior half-eagles by 1857. One copper spot clings to the first start and a tiny carbon dot randomly flings into the obverse right field. A loupe also detects a one tiny hairline at the upper chin, with this trio of characteristics perhaps conspiring to limit full gem potential. The reverse seems particularly free from any mentionable defects while the entire presentation takes full advantage of an exceptional strike.