1795, 13 leaves, choice to very choice mint state with full luster, extremely well struck for this first issue, the devices fully detailed in their deepest recesses, in 1988 the late Walter Breen estimated that of the 5583 pieces originally struck, perhaps twenty to thirty survive uncirculated "of which 4 or 5 qualify as presentation strikings" (Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, Doubleday, 1988, p. 544/5, no. 6830), a beautiful and important coin | Christie's

Lot 393

393

THE FIRST TEN-DOLLAR GOLD COIN OF THE UNITED STATES A SUPERB MINT STATE SPECIMEN

1795, 13 leaves, choice to very choice mint state with full luster, extremely well struck for this first issue, the devices fully detailed in their deepest recesses, in 1988 the late Walter Breen estimated that of the 5583 pieces originally struck, perhaps twenty to thirty survive uncirculated "of which 4 or 5 qualify as presentation strikings" (Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, Doubleday, 1988, p. 544/5, no. 6830), a beautiful and important coin

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1795, 13 leaves, choice to very choice mint state with full luster, extremely well struck for this first issue, the devices fully detailed in their deepest recesses, in 1988 the late Walter Breen estimated that of the 5583 pieces originally struck, perhaps twenty to thirty survive uncirculated "of which 4 or 5 qualify as presentation strikings" (Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, Doubleday, 1988, p. 544/5, no. 6830), a beautiful and important coin