Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint: 1839-1909A masterpiece that makes New Orleans gold coinage readily accessible to the collector, this book contains all new information that cannot be found anywhere else and is complimented by hundreds of beautiful color photos. Since the first edition of this book in 1992, there have been newly discovered hoards that have changed rarity levels of certain dates while others remain very difficult to locate. Now you have grades, rarity, die characteristics, and auction records right at your fingertips. |
Contents
New Orleans Branch Mint A History | 11 |
How Gold Coins Circulated in 19th Century America | 27 |
Gold Dollars | 35 |
Quarter Eagles | 49 |
Three Dollar Gold Pieces | 81 |
Eagles Without Motto | 123 |
Eagles With Motto | 173 |
Double Eagles | 209 |
Common terms and phrases
abrasions AMERICA arrow feather AUCTION RECORD bank better struck Bowers and Merena Bowers and Ruddy Branch Mint Broad Mill California collection CHARACTERISTICS clashmarks cleaned or dipped coin graded collector crack curls David Akers deep green-gold denticles Doug Winter Eliasberg collection Extremely frosty gold dollars graded AU58 Graded MS61 Harry Bass collection higher grade pieces John Leonard Riddell Liberty's locate Louisiana luster MAJOR VARIETIES medium to deep Midwestern collection mint-made mintage figure mintmark MS61 by NGC MS61 by PCGS obverse and reverse orange-gold original color Orleans double eagle Orleans eagles Orleans half eagles Orleans Mint Orleans quarter eagles overall rarity Pinnacle collection Pinnacle Rarities planchet Private collection prooflike properly graded radial lines rare coin RARITY RANKINGS Overall repunching Ron Brown S.S. Republic scarce scarcer semi-prooflike SIGNIFICANT PIECES KNOWN single variety known slightly Small Date small number sold Stack's stars texture TOTAL KNOWN typical Uncirculated Uncirculated Warren Miller weak