1854-D $3 MS(PCGS#7970)

Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

2249

等级

MS61

价格

106,750

详细说明

The offered 1854-D is a pleasing, vivid golden-honey example of a highly respected rarity in the Antebellum Southern gold series. Lively luster shines forth throughout, especially among the design motifs and sheltered surface areas. The surfaces are softly frosted in texture and also sport delicate semi-reflective tendencies in the fields. Attractive for the assigned grade, few singularly distracting marks can be seen with the unaided eye. Struck from clashed dies with evidence of the reverse wreath present at Liberty's neckline while, at the center of the reverse wreath, a reversed impression of Liberty's portrait is seen. The overall impression from the dies is crisp on both sides, especially so for the issue. The tops of the feathers of Liberty's headdress are nearly complete, as are the hair details. On the reverse Longacre's wreath design is bold with even the tiniest details present.<p>As seen on nearly all genuine 1854-D $3 gold pieces, the edge reeding is light in places, especially at the top of the obverse. Also in keeping with virtually every known example of the issue, there is softness throughout the denticles that ranges clockwise from a point just above the letter U in UNITED on the obverse and ending at a point outside the letter I in AMERICA. The reverse denticles are soft in places as well.<p>The branch mint at Dahlonega struck 1,120 three-dollar gold pieces in 1854, the first and only year that the facility produced this denomination. The entire production run for this rarity was accomplished in August from one die pair, with most of the mintage passing into circulation. None are known to have been saved purposefully by a numismatist, and not even the curators of the Mint Cabinet showed an interest in obtaining an example. As a result, the typical 1854-D $3 is a well circulated VF coin. Many of the 125 to 175 or so survivors estimated to exist today have been cleaned or otherwise harmed. Any example even approaching Mint State can be considered a truly special coin. In certified Mint State grades the 1854-D three-dollar gold piece is a landmark rarity in the United States Mint's gold series, and the offered example would serve as a focal point in even the most advanced numismatic cabinet.