The 'double gold eagle', made in 1933 but was never circulated.
The US government changed their minds and ordered all the old coins returned - all except
three.
Auctioned in New York for $7,600,000
Value: 20.00 U.S. dollars
Mass: 33.431 g
Diameter: 34.1 mm (1.34252 in)
Thickness: 2.0 mm (0.07874 in)
Edge: milled/reeded
Composition: 90% Gold, 10% Copper
Years of minting: 1933 Catalog
design: blade eagle in flight , baked by glory with motto
designer: Augustus saint-gaudens
design date : 1907
The 1933 double eagle (United States 20-dollar gold coin) currently holds the record for highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin when it was purchased for US$7.59 million. 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle were minted in 1933, the last year of production for the Double Eagle, but no specimens ever officially circulated and nearly all were melted down, due to the discontinuance of the domestic gold standard in 1933.
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