| Description: |
Warm yellow gold with lively orange highlights. A lustrous and nicely struck example of
one of the most popular gold dollar issues. Another of the varieties that circulated
readily in the Gold Rush era, as shown by the recovery of an example of this variety from
the 1853 wreck of the S.S. Winfield Scott. Among the finest examples of the issue graded
by PCGS.PCGS Population: 4; 2 finer (MS-64 finest).Maker: M. Deriberpie, 1852-54.Obverse:
Large federal style head of Liberty to left, eight six-pointed stars around, one point on
the star punch blunt and broken, three stars between tip of bust and point of
coronet.Reverse: CALIFORNIA GOLD arches around, DERI below an inner circle of tiny
triangular beads, 1 DOLLAR 1853 in three lines within circle. Letters in the legend crude,
several of them from broken punches, most of them filled. In the denomination, the 1 is
boldly repunched, the 8 is low and shows die artifacts within the loops, the 5 is slightly
higher than the 8, and the 3 is lowest of all. DOLLAR is nicely formed and evenly spaced,
the D perhaps a little low.Edge: Reeded.Die State I: Perfect dies. |
