United States 1859-S 10 dollars
This specimen was lot 761 in Künker sale 400 (Berlin, February 2024), where it sold for €14,000 (about US$18,162 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"VEREINIGTE STAATEN VON AMERIKA / USA, 10 Dollars 1859, S, San Francisco. Liberty. 15,05 g Feingold. In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung AU 55 (6862348-001). GOLD. R Fast vorzüglich. (United States of America, ten dollars of 1859, San Francisco mint, liberty head. Graded NGC AU-55, rare, about extremely fine.)"
This specimen is one of a type struck without motto at the San Francisco mint 1854-66. Issues are also recorded from Philadelphia (1839-66) and New Orleans (1841-60). In 1866, the motto "In God We Trust" was added to the reverse. This is a rare date and nearly all the survivors are quite worn.
Recorded mintage: 7,000, a very scarce date with none known in uncirculated.
Specification: 16.71 g, 0.900 fine gold, .483 troy oz AGW, reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM 66.2, Fr-157.
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- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 400: Selected löser of the Dukes of Guelph from the Friedrich Popken Collection | Numismatic treasures from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. "multiple portraits" from a Westphalian private collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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