Lot 78
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$20, 1851 MS-60 (PCGS). Lustrous olive gold with frosty motifs and reflective fields. A popular date from the early years of the denomination. Some faint, scattered marks are noted, most prominent of those being a diagonal crease across Miss Liberty's lower neck.
Mint State 1851 Double Eagle
$20, 1851 MS-60 (PCGS). Lustrous olive gold with frosty motifs and reflective fields. A popular date from the early years of the denomination. Some faint, scattered marks are noted, most prominent of those being a diagonal crease across Miss Liberty's lower neck.

Details
$20, 1851 MS-60 (PCGS). Lustrous olive gold with frosty motifs and reflective fields. A popular date from the early years of the denomination. Some faint, scattered marks are noted, most prominent of those being a diagonal crease across Miss Liberty's lower neck.
An outstanding specimen, one of the finest we have seen or handled. Double eagles of this era are typically encountered in VF and EF grades, occasionally AU, but very rarely Mint State.
Further details
This is the single finest example among 29 from the S.S. Central America treasure graded by PCGS. Date logotype nicely impressed, 5 "open," top of first 1 marginally farther from truncation than bottom is from dentils, left edge of lower serif over left edge of dentil. On the reverse, the crossbar of the A in STATES is tenuous at its right side, die crack from rim above M juts down and unites the tops of MERIC.