1916-S $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS63

Stunning masterwork of Saint-Gaudens at a reasonable price!

Here's an excellent candidate for a type coin for your collection. PCGS has graded 1,135 as MS63 with 3,346 finer.

Gold specialist David Akers writes, "The 1916-S seems to have been minted to a very high standard of quality. The strike is almost always very sharp and the surfaces... [and] do not have the metal flow problems encountered on many examples of the 1915-S. Lustre is always very good to excellent and the color is usually a very appealing rich greenish gold, sometimes with a light orange or coppery tint. High-grade examples of this issue invariably have great 'eye appeal.' "

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the artist-medalist who crafted this spectacular design.

Numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "The double eagle is perhaps the most majestic coin ever to bear our national imprint." Discussing both Saint-Gaudens' $10 eagle along with his $20 double eagle, Vermeule writes, "Both coins seems as modern a century after they were conceived as any issues, American or otherwise, produced in the past generation, and compared with what has been tolerated heretofore in the United States, both burst as artistic skyrockets in the horizons of our academic creativity."