Owner Comments:
Fell in love with this lustrous Type 3 gold dollar the moment I received it. Knew right away it was a keeper.
This was the tenth gold coin that I ever acquired — or had even seen — and it was received back in July 2013. (seven of the ten coins were returned to their respective dealers during their inspection grace periods)
Satisfies the collection’s 1860s decade and is the collection’s only Civil War gold coin. Furthermore, it is fitting that it was minted at the Union's main mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and especially so since one year later the Battle of Gettysburg, also Pennsylvania, forever turned the war in the Union’s favor… to insure that this great nation would stand.
Overpaid for it, but it had a CAC sticker. Six years later it was submitted twice to NGC for Scratch-Resistant reholdering. (the first reholdering had holder mechanical errors)
I always look forward to this coin as I make my way through the left hand stack of seven coins in the puzzle box, to where it resides at the very bottom. Small, beautiful, and so significant… a true heirloom for future generations to admire.