1860-D Gold Dollar. Winter 12-P, the only known dies. AU-53 (PCGS). This 1860-D gold dollar offers exceptional surface quality for this elusive and challenging issue. Satiny in texture with vivid honey-rose color, this example exhibits very sharp striking detail to Libertys portrait and throughout much of wreath on the reverse. Softness for the latter is largely confined to the ribbon at the base, as is typical. The center on that side allows ready appreciation of all elements in the denomination 1 DOLLAR and date 1860, although the digit 6 is a bit blunt. The obverse periphery is characteristically incomplete for the issue, with the letter U in UNITED all but absent. The offered coin is a superior representative of one of the most challenging issues in this Southern gold series.
