1889-S $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle PCGS MS63 Ex. Saddle Ridge Hoard

Here’s a stunning specimen from the famous Saddle Ridge Hoard of 2013. The Hoard was discovered when a couple was walking their dog on their property in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The face value was $27,460.00 but the coins were assessed to be worth about $10 million.

PCGS has graded 92 as MS63 in their exclusive Gold Foil Saddle Ridge Hoard label holder, with 57 finer.

The Saddle Ridge Hoard of gold coins was found by a couple walking their dog in California in 2013. All of the coins were stashed away in metal cans. This is one of the cans at the scene. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Ron Guth of PCGS Coinfacts writes, "422 of the 1,427 coins in the Saddle Ridge Hoard of gold coins were 1889-S Double Eagles. Nearly 100 of those were Mint State and the quality was excellent. As a result, the PCGS Pop Report has swelled and nine examples were better than anything that had been known before. Where once the Finest Known was an MS64, now top honors go to a pair of PCGS MS65+s from the Saddle Ridge Hoard."