1914-D $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS65 Ex.Rive d'Or Collection

Here’s a beautiful piece that would be a great addition to your coin collection. Reports Jeff Garrett, “The 1914–D Double Eagle is among the most common dates of the series. Examples can be found in grades below MS 66 with relative ease."

PCGS has graded 1,314 examples as MS65 with 140 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $5,000.00 in MS65.

Gold specialist David Akers writes, "The 1914-D is typically very sharply struck with ‘soft’ frosty, very slightly granular surfaces. (Many specimens I have seen were definitely on the satiny side but more of them have that distinctive early Denver Mint frosty look.) Lustre is generally very good on this issue and the color is nearly always light to medium orange gold, often with greenish gold highlights."

A self-portrait of sculptor-medalist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who created the beautiful design for the double eagle, as a young man in 1867. Image: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH.