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Posted 10/08/2026 11:09 pm
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For the 1857-S Double Eagles, PCGS has graded:
65: 1048
65+: 70
66: 229
66+: 16
67: 17
67+: 5
Total: 1,385
For the 1857-S Double Eagles, NGC has graded:
65: 151
65+: 11
66: 92
66+: 13
67: 10
67+: 1
Total: 268
Gem graded 1857-S Double Eagles at both PCGS and NGC: 1,653
Not all of these coins were from the SS Central America. Much more than you see for other dates. The coins were submitted to PCGS by the folks that made the discovery and recovered the coins from 2 miles under the sea. These coins were holdered with a gold foil label that Adam590 shows us in his beautiful 1856-S Double eagle. Those also came with a book/presentation case with the holder. I don't have that either but it looks like the picture below.
Many of these coins were cracked out to seek grade upgrades. Many of the gem coins in NGC and other holders were crackouts from the original PCGS submissions, including this coin which sits in a PCGS blue label holder. A previous owner apparently was unhappy with the original grade and resubmitted it. This is with little doubt an S.S. Central America coin.
The S.S. Central America recovery records show the following $20 gold double eagle dates/mm which eventually ended up in holders of all grades:
1857-S: 6,359
1856-S: 1,412
1855-S: 420
Total: 8,191
1841-P: 1
1843-P: 2
1847-P: 7
1848-P: 1
1849-P: 5
1850-P: 27
1851-P: 32
1852-P: 34
1853-P: 25
1854-P: 19
1855-P: 7
1856-P: 6
1857-P: 2
Total: 168
1850-O: 2
1851-O: 7
1852-O: 5
1853-O: 3
Total: 17
For the 1857-S Double Eagles, PCGS has graded:
65: 1048
65+: 70
66: 229
66+: 16
67: 17
67+: 5
Total: 1,385
For the 1857-S Double Eagles, NGC has graded:
65: 151
65+: 11
66: 92
66+: 13
67: 10
67+: 1
Total: 268
Gem graded 1857-S Double Eagles at both PCGS and NGC: 1,653
Not all of these coins were from the SS Central America. Much more than you see for other dates. The coins were submitted to PCGS by the folks that made the discovery and recovered the coins from 2 miles under the sea. These coins were holdered with a gold foil label that Adam590 shows us in his beautiful 1856-S Double eagle. Those also came with a book/presentation case with the holder. I don't have that either but it looks like the picture below.
Many of these coins were cracked out to seek grade upgrades. Many of the gem coins in NGC and other holders were crackouts from the original PCGS submissions, including this coin which sits in a PCGS blue label holder. A previous owner apparently was unhappy with the original grade and resubmitted it. This is with little doubt an S.S. Central America coin.
The S.S. Central America recovery records show the following $20 gold double eagle dates/mm which eventually ended up in holders of all grades:
1857-S: 6,359
1856-S: 1,412
1855-S: 420
Total: 8,191
1841-P: 1
1843-P: 2
1847-P: 7
1848-P: 1
1849-P: 5
1850-P: 27
1851-P: 32
1852-P: 34
1853-P: 25
1854-P: 19
1855-P: 7
1856-P: 6
1857-P: 2
Total: 168
1850-O: 2
1851-O: 7
1852-O: 5
1853-O: 3
Total: 17
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
Edited by numismatic student
10/08/2026 11:18 pm
10/08/2026 11:18 pm
