1853/'2' $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle NGC AU50

Here's a rare variety from the Liberty Head double eagle series. NGC has graded 23 as AU50 with 91 finer.

Gold specialist Doug Winter writes, "All genuine 1853/’2' double eagles show a small raised die dot below the R in LIBERTY and the left side of the crossbar of the A in STATES is broke. Another way to tell that a coin being offered as an overdate is the “real deal” is to look for repunching at the base of the 1 in the date. The variety which is accepted as the overdate has this repunching while the 1853 Repunched Date ... does not. Also, the 1853/’2' overdate shows two lines from the 2 between the lower knob and the inner right curve of the 3; the Repunched Date does not."

Close-up photo of the 1853/'2' overdate, courtesy of PCGS Coinfacts website.