Three-Dollar Gold

In 1853 the United States negotiated the “Gadsden Purchase”—settlement of a boundary dispute with Mexico that resulted in the U.S. acquiring what would become the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico for 10 million dollars. The following year Commodore Matthew Perry embarked upon his famed expedition to re-open Japan to the Western world and establish trade. Spreading beyond its borders in many ways, a few years earlier the United States had joined the worldwide move to uniform postage rates and printed stamps when the Congressional Act of March 3, 1845 authorized the first U.S. postage stamps, and set the local prepaid letter rate at five cents. This set the stage for a close connection between postal and coinage history.

Exactly six years later, the postage rate was reduced to three cents when New York Senator Daniel S. Dickinson fathered legislation that simultaneously initiated coinage of the tiny silver three-cent piece as a public convenien.... (Expand Text)

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1854-O INDIAN PRINCESS $3 AU58

CHOICE LUSTROUS SURFACES SHOWING ONLY THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF WEAR. THIS IS THE ONLY DATE $3 GOLD STRUCK AT THE NEW ORLEANS MINT.
$24,750.00

1856-S INDIAN PRINCESS $3 MS62

CHOICE LUSTROUS SURFACES. VERY SCARCE SAN FRANCISCO $3 GOLD. ONLY 7 COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. THE HIGHEST BEING AN MS64.
$27,500.00

1859 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66+ Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP CAMEO PROOF SURFACES. A BRATHTAKING EXAMPLE OF A TRMENDOUSLY RARE $3 GOLD PIECE. THE ORIGINAL MINTAGE SHOWS 80 COINS, BUT MANY WERE MELTED OR PUT INTO CIRCULATION. ONLY 12-16 BELIEVED TO EXIST TODAY. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED.
$357,500.00

1864 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR64+ Deep Cameo

GEM FROSTY CAMEO DEVICES. BRILLIANT MIRRORED SURFACES. ONLY 50 COINS STRUCK. JUST THREE COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. HARRY W. BASS JR. PEDIGREE. CAC.
$110,000.00

1866 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR65+ Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES WITH FROSTY CAMEO DEVICES. ONLY 30 STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE PR66DCAM GRADED HIGHER. CAC.
$165,000.00

1867 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR65 Cameo

GEM CAMEO PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 50 STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$96,250.00

1872 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR64 Cameo

CHOICE MIRRORED SURFACES WITH CAMEO DEVICES. ONLY 30 STRUCK.
$44,000.00

1874 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR64 Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP CAMEO PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 20 ORIGINALLY STRUCK. JUST TWO DCAMS GRADED HIGHER.
$55,000.00

1874 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66 Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED CAMEO. ONLY 20 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED.
$203,500.00

1875 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR65 Deep Cameo

GEM FROSTY CAMEO DEVICES WITH DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES. ONLY 20 COINS STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE PR65+DCAM GRADED HIGHER. THIS AN EPIC SPECIMEN OF AN ULTRA RARE THREE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE. HARRY W. BASS JR. PEDIGREE.
$600,000.00

1876 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66+ Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES WITH FROSTY CAMEO DEVICES. ONLY 45 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS. CAC.
$357,500.00

1879 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR65+ Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES WITH FROSTY DEVICES. ONLY 30 ORIGINALLY STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE PR66DCAM GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$110,000.00

1881 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR67 Deep Cameo

*QUALITY. GEM DEEP MIRRORED CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 54 MINTED. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED.
$154,000.00

1882 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR67 Cameo

GEM CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 76 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED.
$154,000.00

1883 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66 Deep Cameo

GEM FROSTY CAMEO WITH DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES. ONLY 89 STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE PR67DCAM GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. HARRY W. BASS JR. PEDIGREE. CAC.
$110,000.00

1883 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR67 Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES WITH ICE FROSTY DEVICES. ONLY 89 STRUCK. TIED WITH ONE OTHER COIN FOR HIGHEST GRADED. CAC.
$247,500.00

1884 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR64 Cameo

GEM CAMEO SURFACES. ONLY 106 STRUCK. CAC.
$35,750.00

1887 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66 Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP CAMEO $3 PRINCESS. JUST 160 STRUCK. ONLY TWO GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$93,500.00

1887 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR66 Deep Cameo

GEM DEEP MIRRORED CAMEO. ONLY 160 STRUCK. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$93,500.00

1887 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR67 Deep Cameo

GEM FLASHY DEEP MIRRORED CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 160 STRUCK. TIED WITH ONE OTHER COIN FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS.
$159,500.00

1888 INDIAN PRINCESS $3 PR65

GEM PROOF SURFACES. LOVELY ORANGE PEEL LUSTER. ONLY 291 STRUCK.
$35,750.00