1904-S Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-65+ (PCGS).Awe-inspiring premium Gem surfaces are silky smooth in texture with eye appeal to spare. Fully struck with bountiful mint luster and vivid medium gold patina. The mintage for the 1904-S double eagle is 5,134,175 pieces, a record figure for a San Francisco Mint issue of this denomination that amounted to $102,683,500 in face value. Tens of thousands of Mint State examples are estimated to exist, most of which have been repatriated from foreign bank hoards beginning after World War Two. Although plentiful in an absolute sense the 1904-S is, like all classic U.S. Mint gold coins, a conditionally challenging issue that is rare in the finest Mint State grades, as here.
