1927 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS65

Here’s a simply stunning piece to add to your collection. Jeff Garrett writes, "The 1927 Double Eagle … makes an excellent candidate for a type coin. The production quality for this issue is outstanding and Gem examples of this date are among the best for the series." Gold specialist David Akers writes, "The 1927 is one of the most attractive issues of the series in terms of lustre, color and overall appearance....Most examples are very sharply struck with fully frosty or soft satiny surfaces .... The lustre and color are usually excellent to outstanding..." PCGS has graded 32,281 examples of the 1927 as MS65 with 8,649 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $2,900.00 in MS65.

Early model for the reverse of the double eagle by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, presenting the date in Roman numerals. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "The double eagle is perhaps the most majestic coin ever to bear our national imprint .... Although the authorities at the Mint flattened the relief to facilitate striking and handling, this coin has remained a forceful demonstration that modern, mechanical coinage need in no way be pedestrian."