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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 ...
The Liberty Head double eagle or Coronet double eagle is an American twenty-dollar gold piece struck as a pattern coin in 1849, and for commerce from 1850 to 1907. It was designed by Mint of the United States Chief Engraver James B. Longacre .
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; further, all but two were ordered to be melted down.
These included a $2.50 quarter eagle coin, $5 half eagle coin, $10 eagle coin and $20 double eagle coin. These pre-1933 gold coins are “actually quite scarce,” according to the American Gold ...
Numismatists and coin dealers were still allowed to possess and deal in gold coins; all others required a special license. The double eagle continued to be struck until May. On December 28 , 1933, Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau ordered Americans to turn in all gold coins and gold certificates, with limited exceptions ...
$20 AU-53 United States Heritage Auctions November 2021 $1,610,000 1861 Paquet $20 United States Dallas Bank Specimen Heritage Auctions: August 2006 $1,610,000 1839/8 Type of 1838 LL $10 United States Parmelee, Clapp, Eliasberg Heritage Auctions: January 2007 $1,567,190 1991 Gold 10000 Yuan China: Taisei Coins Corporation [48] [49] April, 2011
Over 2,000 silver coins found in Florida home during demolition ... And the current silver dollar about $20 an ounce that puts the value at more than $9,000 and the money will go the city because ...
The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the United States. [1]