1855-O DOUBLE EAGLE OR
$20 GOLD
PCGS No: 8915
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: 8,000
Proofs: 0
Designer: James
Barton Longacre
Diameter: ±34
millimeters
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Other - 10%
Weight: ±516 grains
(±33.4 grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "O"
(for New Orleans, LA) below the eagle's tail on the reverse
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Recent appearances:
NGC AU-55. Ex - Heritage
Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "Philadelphia 2000 Signature Sale",
August 6-7, 2000, Lot 7426, illustrated, not sold From the Dr.
Barry Southerland Collection
NGC AU-53. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s
"Philadelphia 2000 Signature Sale", August 6-7, 2000, Lot 7425,
illustrated, not sold From the Dr. Barry Southerland Collection
AU-55. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Lake Geneva
Sale", June 28-29, 2001, Lot 1369, illustrated, sold for
$8,050.00 From Stack's sale of January 1986, Lot 411
"About
Uncirculated". Ex - Sotheby's / Stack's "The 'Dallas Bank'
Collection" Auction, October 29-30, 2001, Lot 13, illustrated.
The Akers Plate coin.
EF-45. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The
Cabinet of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part II", March 15-17, 2001, Lot 249
Not sold
EF-45. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Lake Geneva
Sale", June 28-29, 2001, Lot 1370, illustrated, not sold
Notes:
The finest examples graded by PCGS are 2 AU-58's.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, July 2003" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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