1877-S Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-61 (PCGS).Intensely lustrous honey-rose surfaces also sport razor sharp striking detail to virtually all design elements. The 1877-S double eagle registered a mintage of 1,735,000 pieces, down some 138,000 coins from the previous years production at the San Francisco Mint. Face value equaled $34,700,000. Some portion of the mintage made it into overseas banking transactions, a familiar scenario -- and a blessing to later generations of numismatists. Thanks to repatriations from foreign bank hoards, in fact, our estimate for Mint State survivors is a rather generous 1,500 to 2,500 coins. Most of these hover around the MS-60 and MS-61 grade levels, the present example sure to please the BU gold type or date collector.
