Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 7

Coin and Currency Auction

$20 Gold

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1190		1900 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Flashy luster and well preserved. A problem free near gem example. Estimated Value $750 - 850. View details	Realized $805
Lot 1191		1900 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Light coppery toning and pleasing for the grade. Estimated Value $750 - 850. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1192		1900 $20 Liberty. MS-63. Frosty luster. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details	Realized $368
Lot 1193		1900 $20 Liberty. MS-60. Decent surfaces, but there is a mark on Liberty's throat. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details	Realized $334
Lot 1194		1900 $20 Liberty. MS-60. A few hairlines in the fields. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details	Realized $334
Lot 1195		1900-S $20 Liberty. ANACS graded EF-40 and EF-45 respectively. Two coins. Estimated Value $500 - 550. View details	Realized $633
Lot 1196		1901 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Flashy luster, lightly toned with coppery colors, and with the usual bagmarks expected for the grade. Excellent cartwheel luster, and appealing. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $776
Lot 1197		1901 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. One copper spot on the reverse, otherwise abundant luster and fresh. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $776
Lot 1198		1902-S $20 Liberty. MS-62. Flashy luster. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $805
Lot 1199		1903-S $20 Liberty. MS-60. Typical surfaces for the grade. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details	Realized $328
Lot 1200		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-65. While certainly the "common date" this is uncommon condition for any of Longacre's twenties. NGC in their Population Report notes that 3,049 have been so graded of this date, with just 90 graded higher. Therefore, this is about as nice as these can be found. Splendid luster and surfaces throughout. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,783
Lot 1201		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-65. Although 1233 have been graded this high, only 75 have been graded higher, making this one of the very best available not only of this common date, but of the entire type. Frosty luster and very clean surfaces separate this from the bags of banged up ones usually seen. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,783
Lot 1202		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64 Premium quality. Especially bright and flashy, and with a clean cheek on Liberty. Some scattered debris on the reverse, hidden in the lettering, which is probably removable, assuming the coin is broken out of this holder. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $863
Lot 1203		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. Blazing luster and well struck. Only a few minor handling marks from full gem, and scarce as such. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1204		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. A really fresh, choice coin that has excellent fields. There are a couple of very minor ticks on Liberty's face, apparently enough to keep this from the gem class. One for the collector who wants a very high grade example. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1205		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Flashy and bright, with excellent surfaces and strike. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1206		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. Fresh and flashy, this one has light coppery toning and only a couple of hidden tick marks. In the old PCGS small holder. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $1,035
Lot 1207		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. Excellent fields and devices. One for the numismatist who appreciates excellent quality and value. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1208		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. One of the nicer examples of this common date offered in this sale, excellent luster and surfaces. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $661
Lot 1209		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Fresh from a mint bag and very well preserved. Free of all but the most minor signs of contact. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1210		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. Blazing luster and mint-fresh fields and devices which show few contact marks. A good value in todays not-so-balanced market. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1211		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. With the appearance of a higher grade, but possibly not due to very light hairlines in the fields. Flashy luster. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1212		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-63. Flashy luster and clean for the grade. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $449
Lot 1213		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. Choice surfaces and pleasing for the grade assigned. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $449
Lot 1214		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. Hazy toning and only a couple of minor field ticks before Liberty's face. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $449
Lot 1215		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. Clean surfaces for the grade. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $449
Lot 1216		1904 $20 Liberty. MS-63. Well struck. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $345
Lot 1217		1904 $20 Liberty. MS-63. Choice surfaces and desirable luster. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $368
Lot 1218		1904 $20 Liberty. ANACS graded MS-62. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details	Unsold
Lot 1219		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. A choice selection of this common date. Lot of 3 coins. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,350. View details	Realized $2,128
Lot 1220		1904 $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-63. A dealers lot of these important Double Eagles, each choice for the grade assigned by PCGS. Lot of 4 coins. Estimated Value $1,600 - 1,800. View details	Realized $1,840
Lot 1221		1904 $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-63. A dealers lot of these important Double Eagles. Lot of 4 coins. Estimated Value $1,600 - 1,800. View details	Realized $1,794
Lot 1222		1904-S $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Moderate handling marks for the grade, but with flashy luster and sharply defined devices. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1223		1904-S $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Flashy luster and only a few ticks in the fields. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details	Realized $719
Lot 1224		1904-S $20 Liberty. NGC graded MS-64. Hazy toning in the fields, and scattered bagmarks from handling. Good luster and surfaces. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $719
Lot 1225		1904-S $20 Liberty. MS-64. Much scarcer than the Philadelphia version. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $564
Lot 1226		1904-S $20 Liberty. MS-62. Satiny rose luster throughout. Estimated Value $300 - 350. View details	Realized $368
Lot 1227		1906-S $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. Here is a frosty, bright example of this scarce date. There are minor ticks keeping it from a higher grade, and this is a function of the design of this coin, with broad fields and a rather prominent cheek on Liberty, all of which attract tick marks from bag handling or improper storage. For this reason, Liberty double eagles are very scarce in choice or better grades. To find a near gem is often challenging, and many bagmarked coins must be sorted through before a nice piece is secured. A curious condition rarity, only 80 have been so graded by PCGS, with a single coin, just one, graded higher. In PCGS holder #5781546. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,220
Lot 1228		1907 $20 Liberty. MS-61. Only a few minor ticks from handling, and better than the grade implies. Flashy luster. Estimated Value $325 - 350. View details	Realized $334
Lot 1229		1907-S $20 Liberty. PCGS graded MS-64. One of the very finest graded by PCGS, which has graded just 94 this high, with none graded higher! Mint fresh luster in the fields and the strike is bold and complete. As to the surfaces, they are remarkable in their abscence of contact marks. Liberty's cheek shows only slight signs of contact, and the are no hidden problems that have escaped detection. A coin for the date specialist. Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,680
Lot 1230		1907 Four Piece Gold Denomination Set. NGC graded MS-64. Each of the 4 coins in this set is NGC graded MS-64. Included in this set is the Quarter Eagle, Half Eagle, Eagle and Double Eagle. The 7 on the quarter eagle is double punched. The double eagle has great surfaces, while the eagle and half eagle have a few tick marks. The quarter eagle is the best of the lot. A well matched set for the collector. Lot of 4 coins. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. View details	Realized $2,760
Lot 1231		1907 HIGH RELIEF NGC GRADED PROOF 63. NGC graded Proof 63. This is widely considered to be the most beautiful design ever executed on an American coin. Of course, the "ultra" high relief is truest to Augustus St. Gaudens original design plan, but with just a handful known, and priced at over $1,000,000 per, that makes this coin a much more affordable alternative. The surfaces are extremely well preserved on this coin, and show little evidence of handling marks. Satiny in color and surface quality, examination with a glass notes the microscopic swirl lines from the die preparation, seen on all specimens. We note a single tick mark hidden on the eagle's chest, and a couple of others that are microscopic in size. President Theodore Roosevelt had been trying to persuade St. Gaudens to submit new designs for coins for years, and finally persuaded St. Gaudens to design the presidential inaugural medal in 1905. After St. Gaudens had a run in with Mint officials in 1891, he swore he would go to his grave before having anything to do with the Mint Bureau. After completing the inaugural medal, President Roosevelt was so pleased with St. Gaudens work that he confided in him his longtime dream, to replace the "atrociously hideous" coinage designs then in circulation, wanting to restore our national coinage some of the beauty and dignity of the ancient Greek coins. St. Gaudens replied to the President on January 9, 1906: "Whatever I produce cannot be worse than the inanities now displayed on our coins." St. Gaudens produced models, but then his health declined, so he gave more and more of his duties to his assistant Henry Hering. On May 29, 1907 St. Gaudens wrote Roosevelt: "If you succeed in getting the best of the polite Mr. Barber…or others in charge, you will have done a greater work than putting through the Panama Canal. Nevertheless, I shall stick at it, even unto death." Prophetic words, as St. Gaudens died August 3, 1907, before any of his magnificent coins were produced. Hering persisted in St. Gaudens absence, with Roosevelt's unwavering assistance, and the sabotaging Barber finally had to admit that they could be struck, even if each coin required 9 blows from the dies to bring up the relief. Barber continued to overrule the project, and shortly after 11,250 of these magnificent coins were struck, a watered down design in much lower relief was employed by the Mint at Barbers insistence. There you have it, one of the most important and beautiful coins ever struck at our mints, and in proof condition. A foremost opportunity for the numismatist. Estimated Value $15,000 - 20,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $31,050
Lot 1232		GEM HIGH RELIEF WITH WIRE RIM. PCGS graded MS-65. One of the highlights of a collectors life is to own a gem example of this famous coin. For this isn't just any coin, but the high point of American artistry in coinage. The bold high relief design was extremely difficult to fully strike up, and each coin had to be struck several times in order to fill the upper recesses of the dies. Accomplishing a complete strike was highly damaging to the dies, and most show some die cracks or other types of coining strain. As we know, these coins were made at the behest of Mint Engraver Charles E. Barber, who did his upmost to sabotage production of the high relief pieces as designed by the famous sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens. St. Gaudens died shortly before coinage began, and soon Barber got his way, a greatly reduced relief design was employed in late 1907, just months after the original design was adopted. The wire rim is seen on most examples struck, this is caused by metal flowing out from the three piece edge collar and dies producing a thin raised "fin" around part of the obverse and reverse, at the extreme edge. Examination with a glass will note only a couple of very tiny tick marks, nothing important or distracting. The strike is, of course, full and complete. Liberty seems to walk right off the obverse, while the eagle's wings extend out across the Sun filled skies. One of the most beautiful coins ever struck, by any country. PCGS reports that just 223 have been graded this high, with 65 graded higher, which places this coin within the top 2 percent of those struck. An opportunity to own one of America's proudest coins. Estimated Value $20,000 - 25,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $24,150
Lot 1233		1907 $20 St. Gaudens. High relief, Roman numerals, wire rim. MS-60 Plus. A splendid frosty mint example with some scattered light marks, none in particular worthy of mention. A wonderful exmple of the High Relief design long considered "America's most beautiful coin." Estimated Value $7,500 - 8,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $9,200
Lot 1234		1907 $20 St. Gaudens. Flat relief, Arabic numerals. NGC graded MS-63. Frosty luster, but with Barber's flat relief, as employed through the end of the series. Scattered handling marks and some weakness at the reverse center. Estimated Value $550 - 600. View details	Realized $529
Lot 1235		1907 $20 St. Gaudens. Flat relief, Arabic numerals. MS-63. Satiny. Estimated Value $550 - 600. View details	Realized $633
Lot 1236		1907 $20 St. Gaudens. Flat relief, Arabic numerals. Together with: 1924 ANACS graded MS-61. Lot of 2 coins. Estimated Value $675 - 700. View details	Unsold
Lot 1237		1908 $20 St. Gaudens. No motto. PCGS graded MS-66. A glorious coin that boasts blazing luster, light coppery toning and well struck devices. Probably from the hoard discovered a few years ago and carefully marketed to investors. There is a silvery toning area on Liberty. Estimated Value $1,350 - 1,450. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,754
Lot 1238		1908 $20 St. Gaudens. No motto. NGC graded MS-66. Flashy and bright, with blazing luster on both sides. The strike is typical, full and complete for these "reduced" relief coins. Outstanding surfaces, expected for such a high grade, and always worth a premium from knowledgeable collectors. Estimated Value $1,350 - 1,450. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,610
Lot 1239		1908 $20 St. Gaudens. No motto. NGC graded MS-64. Flashy luster and well preserved, but a scuff or two from full gem. Estimated Value $400 - 450. View details	Realized $489

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