1858-S $20 MS(PCGS#8925)

December 2025 Showcase Auction - The James A. Stack, Sr. Collection Part I

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

21020

Grade

AU53+

Price

5,520

Lot Description

Lustrous honey-apricot surfaces exhibit enhancing blushes of pale pinkish-rose and silver iridescence as the coin rotates under direct lighting. Boldly to sharply defined overall with plenty of luster in a softly frosted texture. The mintage for the 1858-S double eagle is 846,710 pieces, down more than 123,000 coins from the 1857-S tally. This issue has been represented in just about every major double eagle collection ever to cross the auction block, the typical example in worn condition, as here, at which levels we estimate that 1,000 to 1,400 coins are extant. Clearly this issue did yeoman's work in commerce on the West Coast, with many examples finding their way into the export trade later in the 19th century. At the lower reaches of AU preservation, one would be hard pressed to find a more attractively original, technically superior coin than the James A. Stack, Sr. specimen offered here.