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Type 3 $1 Gold Piece
baseballjeff
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Hello Everyone!
I was hoping we could discuss the Type 3 $1 Gold Piece. I just picked up this one for my type set and I am amazed at how tiny the date is on it. To me it looks smaller than the image in my Red Book, and it is certainly smaller than the dates of my Type 1 and 2. Is this some sort of variety? Or is this just the way it is.
I sure love these gold coins!
I hope everyone is staying safe during this crazy hurricane. Alaska is beautiful this time of the year!
Thank you everyone,
Jeff
I was hoping we could discuss the Type 3 $1 Gold Piece. I just picked up this one for my type set and I am amazed at how tiny the date is on it. To me it looks smaller than the image in my Red Book, and it is certainly smaller than the dates of my Type 1 and 2. Is this some sort of variety? Or is this just the way it is.
I sure love these gold coins!
I hope everyone is staying safe during this crazy hurricane. Alaska is beautiful this time of the year!
Thank you everyone,
Jeff
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i was commenting at the last coin show i attended how much i really do like the little $1 gold pieces
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The dates vary in size greatly from one year to the next. Some small some quite large.
Here is a neat type 3:
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Sweeeet!
As to date size, here is an 1861 gold dollar which has the smallest date in my small collection of these pieces. The dies are also rotated almost 180 degrees. This variety is noted in Dave Bowers' book on the subject.
This 1881 gold dollar has a much larger and readable date.
No pic, but I just got an 1858-S PCGS/CAC AU58 for my hundred year before birth year set.
U.S. Type Set
PCGS AU55
<< <i>The 1857-C and 1859-C gold dollars were probably the poorest made of all U.S. coins. Stevebin provided us with a look at an 1859-C. Here is an 1857-C in PCGS EF-45. Frankly buying these in high grade does not make much sense to me. The high grades ones don't look any better. >>
The 1854-C (Type 2) are the worst coins produced by any US mint. In addition to the poor workmanship, the Type 2 gold dollars had a high relief which never struck up well which is why the coin was redesigned after only a couple of years.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Dahlonega produced some pretty miserable results too.
That's a wonderful T2 1854, Bill. As Perry said the T3 was designed for better metal flow. The middle digits of the date on the T2 were usually weakly struck. Yours looks terrific.
Lance.
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Craig
Edit: Couldn't resist the Type 1
man, these are hard to photograph. what do you think? do you think it will grade? it has ample cartwheel luster...but those hits in the reverse fields make me think it might get BB'd.
PCGS MS66....sorry no pics.
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I believe PH is ref'ing the 1855-C (Type 2) Dollar. Charlotte didn't produce any $1 gold coins in 1854. He is right about the quality though... very few '55-C dollars can be located with a decent strike and without any planchet anomalies.
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