A well above average strike for this rare date and a brilliant base with gold, lavender, and turquoise toning. Just 140,000 minted with few high grade survivors.

Well detailed with a well defined head, stars, and wreath. The surfaces are lustrous and mostly white with light toning mainly at the borders.

Overdate, FS-301. Well struck and nearly mint state with attractive green, gold, and blue toning.

Moffat & Co. of San Francisco struck rectangular gold ingots and gold coins. They produced $5 pieces in 1849 and 1850 and $10 pieces in 1849. The words MOFFAT & CO appear on Liberty’s coronet instead of LIBERTY as seen on regular U.S. Mint issues. This is one of the few mint state survivors of […]

Small Date. Far rarer than the Large Date variant of this date.

The first regular issue U.S. Double Eagle. The unique 1849 in the Smithsonian Museum is technically a pattern. This is a pleasing example with sharp detail and bright lustrous surfaces.

The scarcest Braided Hair Half Cent in mint state. This is a very attractive spot free example with glossy choice chocolate brown surfaces.

A scarce date with a mintage of just 12,148. All known examples show striking weakness particularly on the reverse and most survivors grade VF to XF. This is a nice lustrous Choice AU that is as well struck as this issue comes with fewer surface abrasions than typically seen.

Rich steel-gray surfaces.