1927 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS66 (CAC) - Registry Set Type Coin-!

1927 $20 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS66 (CAC)--$4,800.00

     It is with pleasure that we at AUCM offer for your consideration a perfect gold type coin: 1927 $20 Saint-Gaudens double eagle PCGS MS66 (CAC). Jeff Garrett tells us, "The 1927 Double Eagle is the second most common date of the series....This date 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." Plus it is also a stunningly beautiful registry coin.

     Numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "The double eagle is perhaps the most majestic coin ever to bear our national imprint. The Liberty striding forward is as grand in miniature as the Hellenistic Victory of Samothrace on a heroic scale. The eagle in flight against the sun on the reverse achieves complete domination of motion and expanding vista over the confines of a tiny tondo. 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." 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."