Welcome to a new DWN/raregoldcoins.com feature which we have named Tale of the Tape. The concept is simple: we take two comparable coins, and give them rigorous head-to-head comparisons.
The San Francisco Mint opened in 1854 and it struck gold coins through 1930…this facility issued some of the rarest individual gold coins in the annals of American numismatics…
The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was added to the reverse of the half eagle in 1866 which created a second type of Liberty Head half eagle from San Francisco. A total of 39 issues are known…
