Heritage Sells the Mississippi Collection - and the Type One $20 Market Gets Recalibrated
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DoubleEagleBook.com : The Online Guide to Type One Double Eagles
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You need a good reference and you need a good specialized dealer if you are beginning a Type One $20 set...
Read MoreAnalyzing the Market for High-Grade Type One $20 Libs Based on Hendricks Sale Prices
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Let’s spend a moment taking a quick dive into the high-grade Type One market…
Read MoreSan Francisco Double Eagles: A Date by Date Analysis Part One
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It has been a long time since I've written anything about the San Francisco double eagles…
Read MoreThe 12 Greatest Type One Double Eagles
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Type One Liberty Head eagles were made for circulation from 1850 through 1866…
Read MoreWhen Did Type One Double Eagles Become Popular?
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Prior to 2000, the supply of high quality Type One double eagles was so limited that had there been an uptick in demand, not enough coins would have been available to satisfy new collectors…
Read MoreHow Rare Are Non-Shipwreck Gem Type One Double Eagles? An Update from 2016
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When the number of properly graded non-shipwreck MS65 Type One double eagles from both grading services is combined, the total is likely to remain less than 20 for some time to come…
Read MoreHow Rare are Non-Shipwreck Gem Type One Double Eagles?
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In the recent Stacks Bowers 2016 ANA Sale, I was fortunate to purchase an amazing 1860 double eagle, graded MS65 by PCGS, which was part of the Bull Run Collection and earlier was sold as Lot 900 in the famous October 1982 Eliasberg Collection auction.
After I bought this coin, I told another dealer that the Eliasberg 1860 “was the finest non-shipwreck Type One double eagle I had ever owned.” This got me to thinking: just how rare are non-shipwreck MS65 and finer double eagles of this type?
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Sold by Douglas Winter Numismatics: Condition Census AU58 1860-O Double Eagle
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