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1861-D GOLD DOLLAR
PCGS No: 7559
Mintage:
Circulation strikes: Unknown
Proofs: 0
Designer: James Barton Longacre
Diameter: ±14.3 millimeters
Metal content:
Gold - 90%
Silver and Copper - 10%
Weight: ±25.8 grains (±1.7
grams)
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "D" (for
Dahlonega, Georgia) below the wreath on the reverse
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Images courtesy of The
Charlottegold Company
Notes:
The finest example graded by PCGS is a single MS-64.
Significant
examples:
PCGS MS-63. Heritage
01/2004: 9002, $43,125.00, Variety 12-Q
NGC MS-63. Ex -
Bowers and Merena sale of the Mory collection, June, 2000, Lot 1151
- Bowers and Merena Galleries "The Rarities
Sale", July 31, 2002, Lot 680, illustrated, sold for $46,000.00 Choice Brilliant Uncirculated.
Ex - Stack's "The University of Notre Dame Sale", March
20-21, 2001, Lot 981, plated, sold for $32,200.00 Ex - Auction '88 (Akers, July-August
1988, lot 853) PCGS
MS-61. Ex – American
Numismatic Rarities, LLC’s “The Classics Sale,” July
25, 2003
, Lot PCGS MS-61 (illustrated
above). Sold as part of the
"North Georgia Collection" of Southern Gold coins in
January, 1999 by Heritage Numismatic Auctions.
Recent
appearances:
PCGS AU-58. Ex - Bowers and
Merena Galleries, "The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, Part IV
Sale", November 20-21, 2000, Lot 63, illustrated, sold for
$21,850.00
NGC AU-58. Ex
- Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc.'s
"Benson Collection, Part I", February 16, 18-20, 2001, Lot
3923, illustrated, sold for $18,400.00 One of the most coveted of all gold dollars because
these were all struck by the Confederacy. Two dies were
shipped to Dahlonega which arrived on January 7, 1861. No
coins were struck by the union. After the Rebels seized the
mint, an unknown quantity of gold dollars were coined using an old
obverse from 1860 and one of the two new reverses, most of which
have been lapped so that the wreath is always weak and lacking fine
detail.
PCGS AU-58. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s sale of
the "Chestatee" Collection, August 1999, Lot 7635 -
Superior Galleries' "The ANA 2001 National Money Show
Auction", March 8-9, 2001, Lot 744, sold for $17,825.00
PCGS
AU-53. Sold as part of the
"North Georgia Collection" of Southern Gold coins in
January, 1999 by Heritage Numismatic Auctions.
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"The PCGS Population Report, April 2004" by The
Professional Coin Grading Service
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