1914 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS64

Here’s a rare beauty, one that carries Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ iconic Striding Liberty design. PCGS has graded 536 as MS64 with 112 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $7,250.00 in MS64.

David Akers writes, “The 1914 has the lowest mintage figure [95,250] of any of the scarce and underrated Philadelphia Mint issues from 1908 With Motto to 1915 …. in MS-60 to 62 condition, the 1914 can be obtained with only a little difficulty. However, even at the MS-63 level, this issue is rather rare, and better than that it is … difficult to find.”

Continuing, Akers writes, “The 1914 is much more sharply struck in general than the 1913 and is nearly as well struck as the 1912. Lustre is average to above average for the series and all examples that I have seen have been frosty.”

Saint-Gaudens’ statue of Victory (1902), which is part of the Sherman monument in New York City, was employed as the model for the design of the Striding Liberty on the obverse of the $20 double eagle. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.