1879 Coiled Hair Stella ($4 Gold)
- Maker
- U.S. Mint (Philadelphia)
- Year
- 1879
- Rank
- 14 of 100
1879 Coiled Hair Stella ($4 Gold)
1879 Coiled Hair Stella ($4 Gold) by U.S. Mint (Philadelphia) (1879) is ranked 14 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It sold for $2,135,000 on 1 May 2026. The first-year Coiled Hair Stella, far rarer than the Flowing Hair; a blue-chip pattern coin.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The first-year Coiled Hair Stella, far rarer than the Flowing Hair; a blue-chip pattern coin.
$4 gold pattern, Coiled Hair, NGC/PCGS Proof (Judd-1638)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,135,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 1 May 2026
Heritage Auctions, CSNS US Coins Signature, April 29-May 2 2026. 1879 Coiled Hair Stella realized $2,135,000, leading the $26.9M sale.
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.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08