Gold Dollar NEWP! 1889 ~

asheland · January 15, 2026 4:46PM

The surfaces on this are outstanding, the color and originality is top-notch! I got this for CDN bid $860, I can’t imagine finding a nicer coin for that small of a price!

Gold dollars and Indian head cents are some of my favorite series, anyone who has gold dollars, post them here! I’d love to see others from 1889 if any of you guys have one!

johnt · January 15, 2026 4:56PM

I found this raw in a box of random coins I purchased as part of a collection. the owner had no clue where it came from.

mark_dak · January 15, 2026 4:59PM

Sorry, no 1889 but I picked this one up last year.

Mark

MWallace · January 15, 2026 5:13PM

Do these count?

PCGS AU58

winesteven · January 16, 2026 1:17AM

I got lucky that I bought my coins for my Gold Type Set roughly six+ years ago or so. If I was doing it today, I’d have to buy lower grades.

Here’s my 1889 $1 Gold, Type 3:

Steve

Copperindian · January 16, 2026 8:26AM

No 1889, but these:

jfriedm56 · January 16, 2026 8:42AM

@asheland, Nice pickup Terry. I believe the last decade of these are underrated along with the 3 dollar gold pieces having such low numbers produced. No 1889, but I did recently acquired this one.

ambro51 · January 16, 2026 8:45AM

And here’s one which actually spent its life in use as a coin….

liefgold · January 16, 2026 10:39AM

@asheland that is a very nice 1889. Great color!
Here is a nice looking PL with great cameo, I recently got:

coinbuf · January 16, 2026 11:15AM

Looks like a very choice coin congrats on your newp. This 1884 has a nice PL look in hand.

BillJones · January 16, 2026 11:16AM

Here's my 1889 goikd dollar. It is graded MS-64.

The 1889 gold dollar has a mintage of 28,950. That sounds low until you consider that it was the highest mintage for a gold dollar since 1874. The coin is fairly common with a high percentage of survivors.

I had visions of putting together a date and mint mark set of gold dollars. I completed with the Type I and Type II coins, minus the 1849-C Open Wreath which is rare with 5 or 6 survivors. Then I looked at the prices for pieces like the 1856-D, 1875 and especially the 1861-D. I decided to do a "short set" with the dates in the 1880s, plus a few others I had already found.

Here are a couple of my more attractive pieces.

1880 This is graded MS-65. The mintage is low at 1,600, but the survival rate is high at around 900.

1881 This is graded MS-67, and was my type coin until I got a Proof.

1883 This is my only "old gold" Proof coin. It's an PR-65, CAM, CAC

The_Dinosaur_Man · January 16, 2026 11:24AM

I don't have any myself but I do have a question: were any gold dollar dies sent to Carson City?

Downtown1974 · January 16, 2026 12:05PM

Wow….great price for that one, Asheland! Congratulations on a super newp!

Here’s mine to share…..

TomB · January 16, 2026 12:12PM

Your coin looks like it has a nice peach halo.

BillJones · January 16, 2026 12:33PM

@The_Dinosaur_Man said:
I don't have any myself but I do have a question: were any gold dollar dies sent to Carson City?

Not to my knowledge. The Carson City Mint opened in 1870. By that time, the gold dollar had had it's day. The Philadelphia Mint tried to bring it back with high mintages in 1873 and '74, but it didn't catch on again. There was no reason to send gold dollar dies to Carson City.

The gold dollar was big before the Civil War. Paper dollars were very unreliable (Banking reform, badly needed, was to be a Civl War related thing.), and silver dollars melted for more than their face value. So the gold dollar had a role in the economy.

During the war, all coins, copper-nickel, bronze, silver and gold were hoarded. After the war, a paper dollar, authorized by the Federal Government, was worth less than a gold dollar. That didn't get fixed until 1876, and by then the gold dollar was in the the monetary rear view mirror.

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:27PM

@winesteven said:
I got lucky that I bought my coins for my Gold Type Set roughly six+ years ago or so. If I was doing it today, I’d have to buy lower grades.

Here’s my 1889 $1 Gold, Type 3:

Steve

That is splendid, absolutely splendid!
And yes, about six or seven years ago the market was perfect for buying these pre-33 pieces. Everything was so, so much incredibly cheaper!

A few of my pieces were picked up around that time as well…

A lot of pre-33 is high now because of the gold prices, but these little dollars seem to be immune from that. For the time being anyway.

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:29PM

@jfriedm56 said:
@asheland, Nice pickup Terry. I believe the last decade of these are underrated along with the 3 dollar gold pieces having such low numbers produced. No 1889, but I did recently acquired this one.

I love that type two! I agree, the last decade is underrated…

Even the $2.50 libertys from the 1880s are very cheap compared to their rarity!

Your type two is superb!

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:32PM

@liefgold said:
@asheland that is a very nice 1889. Great color!
Here is a nice looking PL with great cameo, I recently got:

The color really did speak to me on this recent pick up of mine…

Your gold dollar collection is absolutely superb. I always love to see your latest acquisitions!

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:34PM

@coinbuf said:
Looks like a very choice coin congrats on your newp. This 1884 has a nice PL look in hand.

That is splendid! I actually really like that slab 👍

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:38PM

@BillJones said:
Here's my 1889 goikd dollar. It is graded MS-64.

The 1889 gold dollar has a mintage of 28,950. That sounds low until you consider that it was the highest mintage for a gold dollar since 1874. The coin is fairly common with a high percentage of survivors.

I had visions of putting together a date and mint mark set of gold dollars. I completed with the Type I and Type II coins, minus the 1849-C Open Wreath which is rare with 5 or 6 survivors. Then I looked at the prices for pieces like the 1856-D, 1875 and especially the 1861-D. I decided to do a "short set" with the dates in the 1880s, plus a few others I had already found.

Here are a couple of my more attractive pieces.

1880 This is graded MS-65. The mintage is low at 1,600, but the survival rate is high at around 900.

1881 This is graded MS-67, and was my type coin until I got a Proof.

1883 This is my only "old gold" Proof coin. It's an PR-65, CAM, CAC

Your collections always impress me, those coins are no exception!

I would love to do a set of gold dollars as well, but I don’t think it’s in the cards for me financially…

However, when ones like this show up for these prices, I will pick them up and just have a few scattered pieces, gold dollars are among my favorite type coins!

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:40PM

@The_Dinosaur_Man said:
I don't have any myself but I do have a question: were any gold dollar dies sent to Carson City?

Good question, but none that I’m aware of…

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:42PM

@Downtown1974 said:
Wow….great price for that one, Asheland! Congratulations on a super newp!

Here’s mine to share…..

That is awesome! 😎

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:45PM

@TomB said:
Your coin looks like it has a nice peach halo.

It really does, it’s hard to capture the color, but the color is outstanding on it!

asheland · January 17, 2026 9:49PM

Great coins everybody!

Thanks for posting them!

Copperindian · January 17, 2026 10:05PM

Still no 1889’s, but both 1861’s:

MS64 CAC

AU details - planchet flaw

asheland · January 18, 2026 12:37AM

@Copperindian said:
Still no 1889’s, but both 1861’s:

MS64

AU details - planchet flaw

That’s pretty cool, I’ve got a similar lineup for 1857…

Philly:

Dahlonega:

Eventually, I would like to find Charlotte and San Francisco’s both from 1857 and have all four for that year…

bammbamm · January 18, 2026 8:00AM

This 1889 is in the Heritage weekly auction that closes on Wednesday. (Not my coin.) It looks to be a nice coin. It'll be interesting to see what it goes for.

Gold Dollar NEWP! 1889 ~

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