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List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...
The late Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun had a curious order in his will that meant his impressive coin collection could not be sold for 100 years. That time is up and the collection could now be ...
In 2011, the coin fetched 3.7 million pounds (about $6 million) at auction, the second-most expensive ever sold at auction. In 2019, another version of the coin was sold for the same amount in ...
1908. Design discontinued. 1933. The Saint-Gaudens double eagle is a twenty- dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the United States Mint from 1907 to 1933. The coin is named after its designer, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who designed the obverse and reverse. It is considered by many to be the most beautiful of U.S. coins.
Double eagle ($20.00) The 1933 double eagle is a United States 20-dollar gold coin. Although 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens double eagle were minted in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, [1] none were ever officially circulated, and all but two were ordered to be melted down. However, 20 more are known to have been rescued from ...
1. 1933 Double Eagle. Potential worth: $18.9 million. And here is the world’s most expensive coin of all time: the 1933 Double Eagle, worth up to $18.9 million. It sold for this price at auction ...
Double eagle. The 1849 Liberty Head design by James B. Longacre. The 1907 high relief double eagle designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. [1] (. Its gold content of 0.9675 troy ounces [30.09 g] was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/ozt.)
An example graded Mint State 65 became the country’s most expensive gold coin and the second most expensive coin of any composition when it sold for $9.36 million in 2021.