Finally got a $3 gold piece for my collection!
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I've been looking off an on to add this coin as a type for my collection. I remember the prices being run a some years back, which made me stop looking for awhile. After they came back down a bit, I started looking again for a nice XF/AU non-1854 or '78 piece. I hadn't realized that so many of these were goobered up by cleaning, being in jewelry or just scrubbed out beyond ugly. Finally this came up in the last Stack's auction and I got it for a price I liked, even with the juice. This 1856 is graded AU-58 and it does have a CAC sticker, which doesn't hurt. Now I can sleep at night.
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And WHAT, pray tell, is wrong with an 1854?
Actually nothing!
Just wanted something besides a 'common' date, though none of these coins are exactly common. Apologies to any 1854 or 1878 pieces out there!
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Never purchase one of these in the raw. Smart getting it authenticated as 90% solid gold/authentic and not fake.
Very nice high AU coin with an agreeing sticker, congrats
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For one thing, on an 1854, the reverse DOLLARS is in much smaller letters...
Nice coin!
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Sweet. Congrats!
Very nice
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Nice coin. Congrats!
I have one minted in 1854 from a little town in Georgia. I'm OK with it small letters and all.
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Very nice gold coin.... excellent addition. Cheers, RickO
Superb addition!
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I remember ,when I was a kid ,sitting in on the Stack's 1971 ANA auction. They had almost 50 $3 pieces in the sale . I wanted one but never had the nerve to get my hand in the air. Any of them would have been a lot of money for me at that time .I have always regretted not buying one them.
$150.00 in real money was a lot back in 1854. I can't imagine why anyone would squirrel away 50 gold coins like that without wanting to spend them (back in the day).
there's some pretty frosty luster remaining on that one. nice!
i like the smaller letters on the 54...they match the $1 piece. however, i can see wanting an alternative date. congrats
1856, the number
nice gold