Found something Special Hiding on my Gold Dollar, check out the pics! I also published a version of this on CoinTalk.

So I was taking my first photo of my newest coin, and WHAM, something special jumped out at me. A quick look on NGC Explorer, and confirmed what I was seeing. I Just found a 1854 G$1 Type 2 DDO slabbed in a plain vanilla 1854 Type 2.

Check it out, let me know if you agree. some Guides say it's worth $1800, but that is clearly optimistic. A non-CAC AU53 was sold by GC 1 year ago for only $550, and a non-CAC MS61 on HA sold for ~$1500.

I'm think re-holdered in a nice new Scratch Resistant holder, this may be a $800 coin.

There have been very few graded as far as I can tell. PCGS says 5 total, NGC says 12 total. Not sure how rare that makes it, as some people probably don't even look.

"Doubling is seen in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and most notably in the beads of Liberty's headdress."

See here for more info: http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-varieties/gold-dollars/1854-ddo-type-2-g1-fs-101-4377

I am pretty happy right now.

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