1889 Gold Coin - ICG Grade AU53

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1889 Gold Coin
ICG Graded AU-53
A beauty from my dad's estate!
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The
three-dollar piece
was a gold coin produced by the United States Bureau of the Mint
from 1854 to 1889. Authorized by the Act of February 21, 1853,
the coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James
Longaker
.
The obverse
bears a representation of Lady Liberty
wearing a headdress of a Native American princess
and the reverse a wreath of corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco.
Although over 100,000 were struck in the first year, the coin saw little use. It circulated somewhat on the West Coast
, where gold and silver were used to the exclusion of paper money, but what little place it had in commerce in the East
was lost in the economic disruption of the Civil War, a
nd was never regained. The piece was last struck in 1889, and Congress ended the series the following year.
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