Week # 176 COINsider this question:

[Melissa Pearce]

QUESTION:

 

Which USA gold coin has an uncertain net mintage because the first press run omitted the necessary mintmark and may not have been issued? Please name the date, mint, and denomination.

 

Good Luck!

 

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[Gallagher]

just a quess, the 1866-S $20 gold .

gallagher

[Gallagher]

 

1866-S $20 gold without Motto.

gallagher

[jtryka]

I will guess the 1861-D gold dollar, but I really have no clue!

[HaydenTubbs]

1861-D gold dollar

[BankNote1]

WAG 1840-Dahlonega Half-Eagle??? I need to win another plastic box or two!!!

[reid1836]

1870, San Francisco, $3 Gold

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION:

 

Which USA gold coin has an uncertain net mintage because the first press run omitted the necessary mintmark and may not have been issued? Name the date, mint, and denomination.

 

ANSWER:

 

1870-S gold dollar

 

 

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[reid1836]

Please refer to Walter Breen`s Complete Encyclopedia Of U.S And Colonial Coins

pages 504 and 505. Note: 2000 pcs struck without mintmark on reverse dies, new reverse dies sent. Same as 1870-S gold dollar.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Reid1836

[DWLange]

Three-dollar pieces were not made for circulation by the San Francisco Mint in 1870. Though the mintmark was omitted from both the one-dollar and three-dollar dies, only the former were used for mass production. Superintendent LaGrange's letter about the matter is not specific, as Breen noted, but the issue of which coins were produced for circulation from unmarked dies has been clarified in recent research by Nancy Oliver and Richard Kelly.