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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 melting by being ...
1933 Double Eagle. Auction Record: $18,872,250 . Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the 1933 Double Eagle was the last gold $20 coin struck by the U.S. Mint before ... 1933 Indian Head Gold Eagle.
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 .
The 1933 double eagle is among the most valuable of U.S. coins, with the sole example currently known to be in private hands–the King Farouk specimen, which was purchased by King Farouk of Egypt in 1944–selling in 2002 for $7,590,020 [24] and resold to an unknown buyer in 2021 for $18.8 million.
Meanwhile, a rare 1933 “Double Eagle” coin, one of the last gold coins ever struck for circulation in the US, sold for $18.9 million in 2021. For more CNN news and newsletters create an ...
However, a few of the 1933 Saint Gaudens double eagles (as the coins later came to be known) survived, largely through the efforts of Israel Switt, a Philadelphia jewelry dealer.
Alternatively, Double Eagle could become a disambiguation page linking to Liberty Double Eagle and St. Gaudens Double Eagle articles. nirvana2013 12:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Damnit, ther's also 1933 Double Eagle, shouldn't that be merged with St. Gaudens Double Eagle, unless I'm missing something. But yes, if no merge, definatly a disambiguation page.
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