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Reverse of an 1856-O Liberty Head double eagle, with the New Orleans mintmark above TWENTY D.; pictured specimen unidentified. The FLOAT constituent is priced on the PCGS AU58 example sold by Heritage Auctions in March 2025.
Photo: TheArlingtonCollection, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

1856-O Liberty Head Double Eagle

Maker
U.S. Mint (New Orleans)
Year
1856
Rank
62 of 100

1856-O Liberty Head Double Eagle

1856-O Liberty Head Double Eagle by U.S. Mint (New Orleans) (1856) is ranked 62 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It sold for $690,000 on 2 March 2025. The premier rarity of the Liberty double eagle series — the smallest mintage (2,250) of any New Orleans double eagle.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

The premier rarity of the Liberty double eagle series — the smallest mintage (2,250) of any New Orleans double eagle.

$20 gold, Liberty Head, O mintmark, PCGS AU58 (third-finest known)

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$690,000
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
2 March 2025

Heritage Auctions, Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature, Feb 27-Mar 2 2025. PCGS AU58 (third-finest) realized $690,000 — record for the issue (prior $576,150, 2008). Mintage 2,250.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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