1849 $20 Mormon Double Eagle NGC XF40

Roster of High-Grade 1849 Mormon Twenty Dollar Gold Pieces
This roster of high-grade specimens was compiled by numismatic researcher Wayne Burt. We believe at least 24 separate examples of the 1849 Mormon twenty are extant in all grades.
1. MS62 PCGS. Discovered in a safe deposit box in 2016. Orlando F.U.N. Platinum Night Signature Sale (Heritage, 1/2021), lot 4148, realized $720,000. 
2. MS62 NGC. John Glover Kellogg; Kellogg heirs; Public Auction Sale (Thomas Elder, 10/1916), lot 741, realized $450; Virgil Brand (Brand Journal number 81206); Brand Estate; Armin Brand (priced at $600 on 3/1/1942); B.G. Johnson; Jacob Shapiro (a.k.a. J.F. Bell); J.F. Bell Collection (Stack's, 12/1944), lot 1020, realized $900; Major Alfred Walter; 60th Public Auction (New Netherlands, 12/1968), lot 593, realized $8,000; Henry Clifford; Kagin Collection; Stuart Levine; Riverboat Collection (Heritage, 4/2014), lot 5456, realized $558,125. Note: In the Bell catalog, Stack's identified this coin as the Wayte Raymond-George Alfred Lawrence-"Col." E.H.R. Green specimen, but that attribution is incorrect, as pointed out in New Netherlands' 60th Sale. Plate coin in Donald Kagin's Private Gold Coins and Patterns of the United States.
3. MS61, estimated grade per David Hall. Mint Cabinet; National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.
4. AU53 PCGS. Judge Charles W. Slack; Slack Collection (B. Max Mehl, 5/1925), lot 51, realized $475; unknown intermediaries; Dr. Russell H. Renz; Royal Sale (Mehl, 3/1948), lot 3923; James A. Stack; Stack-Teich Collections (Stack's, 1/1990), lot 332, realized $41,250. Rarities Night Sale (StacksBowers 11/2021), lot 4149, realized $300,000.
5. AU50 PCGS. Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie; Zabriskie Collection (Henry Chapman, 6/1909), lot 457, Col. James W. Ellsworth; John Work Garrett, via Wayte Raymond and Knoedler Galleries in 1923; Johns Hopkins University; Garrett Collection, Part II (Bowers and Ruddy, 3/1980), lot 954, realized $50,000; Charles Kramer; Kramer Collection (Stack's- Superior, 11/1988), lot 943, realized $45,100.
6. AU50 NGC. Stocker Estate; Pre-Long Beach Sale (Ira and Larry Goldberg, 9/2012), lot 2251, realized $253,000.
7. XF45 PCGS (CAC). Henry Chapman's sale of the John Story Jenks Collection, December 1921, lot 6414; Henry Chapman's sale of the A.C. Nygren Collection, April 1924, lot 402. The Larry H. Miller Collection (StacksBowers 12/2020), lot 1449, realized $264,000.

Notable others include the Judge Slack-James Stack specimen; the PCGS VF30 specimen sold by Bowers and Merena in August 1995 ($37,400); the Garrett coin; the bruised Eliasberg coin, the tooled Walton-Gibson piece, and the burnished specimen in the September 1984 Bowers and Merena sale