1852 Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-63 (PCGS). Secure Holder.Lovely satin surfaces and warm rose-orange patina provide truly memorable eye appeal for this conditionally rare Type I Liberty twenty. Sharply struck and expertly preserved, as well, sharp-eyed gold collectors are sure to take full advantage of the fleeting bidding opportunity that our offering of this coin represents. Early Type I Liberty double eagles such as the 1852 are very difficult to find in true Mint State condition, the only exception being the coins recovered from various shipwrecks from this period. While the original mintage for the 1852 would imply that many such coins would exist, nothing could be further from the truth, as there are perhaps only one to two hundred coins that would qualify as such if all could somehow be gathered together and tallied up. These are true condition rarities, especially at and above the MS-63 level, as here. After all, there were few numismatists active in the United States during the 1850s, and even fewer who could afford to set aside the rather immense sum of money that $20 represented during that decade. In fact, most Mint State examples of this and other issues from the era probably survived purely as a matter of chance.
