#Eagle eye rare coins full#

Brent Pogue Collection, Part II, Sotheby's, New York, NY Sold: September 2015 Stack's/Bowers, The D. Therefore, public records put this coin as the finest and most expensive Indian ten dollar gold coin. It cannot be verified that the coin sold for this astronomical price.

#Eagle eye rare coins full#

It is fully struck with full details even on the highest regions of the coin.Īnother example of this coin in the same grade was offered for private sale in 2015 for the astounding price of $3 million. A typical example is lacking in detail on the highest points of the coins. Since these coins have such a high relief, it is difficult for the coining presses to strike them up fully. Of the remaining coins, this coin is the finest known specimen with a lofty grade of PR-67.

However, experts believe approximately one dozen of these coins remain today. Mint records indicate that the mint produced fifty of these Proof coins. Leach, once owned this satin finish 'Proof 1907 With Periods Rolled Edge' ten dollar gold eagle. Sold: January 2011 Heritage Auctions, FUN Signature & Platinum Night U.S. There is only one coin graded higher at MS-67, and that coin has not been on the market since 2005. Experts believe that approximately twelve 1927-D twenty-dollar gold pieces exist today. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 'forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.' This order led to the United States government melting millions of gold coins surrendered by the American public. In 1927, the Denver mint produced 180,000 twenty-dollar gold pieces. This also makes it one of the most in-demand United States gold coins. Unfortunately, Saint-Gaudens died before he could design any more coins for the United States. This coin was designed as part of the Renaissance of American Coinage initiated by President Roosevelt. Many coin collectors believe that the Saint-Gaudens twenty-dollar gold double eagle is the most beautiful coin ever produced by the United States Mint. Sold: January 2014 Heritage Auctions, FUN U.S. Anybody looking to assemble a complete collection of Liberty Head twenty dollar gold double eagles will need a rather large coin collecting budget to afford this extremely rare coin. Experts believe that the Philadelphia mint only produced three coins and two of them are known to survive. However, the San Francisco mint already struck 19,250 coins for circulation with the S mintmark. Quality experts contended that the rim of the coin was too narrow to protect the design elements and the coin would wear out quickly. In early January 1861, Mint Director James Ross Snowden telegraphed the San Francisco mint with instructions not to use the dies because of a technical flaw.

The Philadelphia mint shipped several coin dies to the San Francisco mint to be used in production. The mint director approved the design and die sinkers in Philadelphia produced several sets of coin dies. Paquet attempted to improve the design by producing a modified reverse with taller, narrower letters. James Barton Longacre designed the coin with help from Peter F. The United States Mint produced twenty dollar gold double eagle coins since 1850. Sold: August 2014 Heritage Auctions, ANA US Coins Signature Auction - Chicago, IL This unique coin is now classified as a ' Specimen Strike' and has the SP designation in the grade.

This practice of striking special coins for coin collectors was quite prominent during this time period. It is possible that mint workers did produce a proof coin and failed to record any documentation that it was produced. It is obvious that mint workers used extra care and special processes to produce this coin to give it these extraordinary details. Researchers concluded that no, Proof coins were produced during this time at the New Orleans mint. Originally, numismatists consider this a Proof coin. However, this coin has beautiful details and a reflective surface in the fields. The low-quality of these coins were a result of a low striking pressure. Most twenty-dollar gold coins minted at the New Orleans Mint have soft and mushy details. Any twenty-dollar gold double eagle with this low of a mintage number would make it expensive. The United States Mint created only 2,250 gold double eagles in 1856 at the New Orleans mint. Sold: May 2009 Heritage Auctions, Signature U.S.