| Description: |
Lustrous deep olive-gold with splashes of rose and orange in the recessed areas. A
pleasing example of the issue, here from a very late state of the die; polishing has
eliminated the row of beads along the top edge of the coronet, these beads sometimes
called "pearls,” and this late state sometimes called the "no pearls”
variety. A pleasing coin for the grade, and among the finest certified by PCGS.PCGS
Population: 7; 1 finer (MS-63).Maker: Gaime, Guillemot & Co., 1852-54 (by Frontier,
Deviercy & Co.).Obverse: Large federal style head of Liberty to left, 13 six-pointed
stars around, stars consisting of six "tear drop lines” that join at the center,
G.G. maker’s mark below truncation, second G first punched into die upside-down, then
corrected. Reverse: Wide open wreath at center, CALIFORNIA GOLD. Arcs above, date below
wreath. Fraction and denomination within wreath, bow of wreath consists of three
heart-shaped lines, two within the wreath, the third inverted below; the third loop
separates the 8 and 5 in the date. Fraction bar horizontal, 1 of fraction slightly left of
center, 2 of fraction slightly right of center. DOLLAR unevenly spaced, D O nearly touch,
O low, and visibly repunched to the right, O L more widely spaced, L L A joined at base, R
slightly low with its right foot attached to leaf in wreath.Edge: Reeded.Die State I: Die
crack from upper left wreath end across fraction bar and from there down to the R in
DOLLAR. |
