Lot 86
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$20, 1853-O AU-58 (PCGS). Bright olive gold with distinctly prooflike fields. One of just 71,000 examples of the date produced. Typically found at VF or EF, with finer specimens such as offered here quite scarce. Although eight examples of the date (from various sources throughout numismatics) have been certified by PCGS as AU-58, only one finer coin has been graded, an MS-63.
Outstanding 1853-O Double Eagle Among Finest Known
$20, 1853-O AU-58 (PCGS). Bright olive gold with distinctly prooflike fields. One of just 71,000 examples of the date produced. Typically found at VF or EF, with finer specimens such as offered here quite scarce. Although eight examples of the date (from various sources throughout numismatics) have been certified by PCGS as AU-58, only one finer coin has been graded, an MS-63.

Details
$20, 1853-O AU-58 (PCGS). Bright olive gold with distinctly prooflike fields. One of just 71,000 examples of the date produced. Typically found at VF or EF, with finer specimens such as offered here quite scarce. Although eight examples of the date (from various sources throughout numismatics) have been certified by PCGS as AU-58, only one finer coin has been graded, an MS-63.
Further details
This is the single finest example among three from the S.S. Central America treasure graded by PCGS. Date logotype heavily impressed, 5 "closed," date nicely centered horizontally and vertically, left edge of lower serif of 1 over left side of dentil. O mintmark lightly impressed and frail in appearance, considerably closer to tail feathers than to denomination, tilted slightly right, and placed slightly left of center of N below. Crossbar of A in STATES broken at left, a faint vestige being all that remains.