1895 Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-64 (PCGS). CAC.Beautiful rose-orange surfaces are fully lustrous and exceptionally smooth in a survivor of this issue. Sharply struck, as well, and worthy of a premium bid. The mintage for the 1895 double eagle amounted to 1,114,605 circulation strikes, down nearly 255,000 pieces from the previous years tally. Face value totaled $22,292,100. Much of the mintage found its way overseas in banking and other business transactions, as was customary for double eagles from that era. Some 17,500 to 30,000 or more Mint State examples of the date are extant, mainly in MS-60 to MS-63 with occasional forays into higher grades, as here. Most Uncirculated coins are from repatriations of quantities that fled the country in the mid-1890s.
