1895 Ten Dollar Gold Grade Please

The coin appears to be high end Almost Uncirculated piece, AU-55 or 58 depending upon the amount of luster remaining. You are right. It is a common date that does not bring a large premium over melt in this condition. The Gray Sheet says somewhere in the $620 to $630 range. There is very little spread between the prices for EF to AU-58 bids.

with AU-58. Lovely coin. Even if it isn't worth too much over melt I hope you enjoy it and have another family member to appreciate it down the line.

I agree with AU as the grade, the date does appear to be doubled.

AU-55.

There are varieties of gold coins, and everything else in the U.S. series, but the trouble is as you get later and later in the 19th century, they become more trivial. Most of them have to do with dates and mint marks with regard to positioning and sometimes minor doubling. Another issue is that as many 40 or 50 die pairs can be used within a year with only a few very minor differences to separate them. Collectors just don't care enough to get into them, and researchers are not big about publishing books that no one will buy.

If you want to collect U.S. coin varieties, start with the 1790s where a lot of them are "naked eye" (easily spotted) varieties. As you move forward the differences get smaller and smaller. The one exception to this is the VAM varieties for Morgan and Peace silver dollars. As you can see here on this site, quite a few collectors care about them.

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