1928 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS65+

1928 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS65+, $2,490.00

      It is with much pleasure that we offer for your consideration a simply beautiful example of the Saint-Gaudens double eagle. It is perfect for a type set of U.S. gold coinage, or if you want just one really amazing gold coin for your collection. This is the perfect type coin. David Akers writes, "For the person wanting a nearly perfect Saint-Gaudens double eagle with great 'eye-appeal,' the 1928 is the most likely issue to be available...From an overall appearance standpoint, the 1928 is typically one of the best of the series..."

      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."