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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 .
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...
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 ...
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.) The coins are 34 mm × 2 mm and are ...
As an example, McMorrow-Hernandez described how “many vintage pre-1933 United States gold coins, such as circulated, common-date Liberty Head $10 eagles and $20 double eagles as well as Saint ...
Saint-Gaudens double eagle: MS-66+ CAC United States Eliasberg Private sale [26] August 6, 2021 $3,000,000 1911 Long Whisker Dragon Dollar SP-63+ China Stack's Bowers [27] $2,990,000 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle - Ultra High Relief PR-69 United States Trompeter Heritage Auctions [28] November 2005 $2,990,000 1787
A complete typeset of seven Double eagle gold $20 coins from 1849 to 1933. Included is one image (a three-photo montage) of edge lettering and detail on a high relief 1907 $20 coin. Articles in which these images appear Double eagle (all), Liberty Head double eagle, Saint-Gaudens double eagle, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, James B. Longacre
Under the Mint Act of 1792, the largest-denomination coin was the gold eagle, or ten-dollar piece. [2] Also struck were a half eagle ($5) and quarter eagle ($2.50). [3] Bullion flowed out of the United States for economic reasons for much of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.