GrandView Double Eagle Collection (One Each Date)
1854

Owner Comments:

CAC Ex: Eric P. Newman

More than 141,000 double eagles were produced, but surprisingly few survive today. Most of the high-grade coins known trace their origin to the S.S. Yankee Blade shipwreck, which was discovered with its vast gold stores in the late 1970s. The shipwreck coins are usually bright and etched to some degree by saltwater exposure. Examples not from the shipwreck, with original orange-gold patina, are extremely rare in the upper AU levels and prohibitively so in Mint State. The near-Mint Newman coin boasts unusually smooth surfaces and bold design definition. Luminous apricot-gold surfaces are blatantly original and increase the eye appeal.