1907 $20 Saint-Gaudens MS (PCGS#9141)
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 5207
- 等级
- MS66+
- 价格
- 113,595
- 详细说明
- Premium Gem 1907 Arabic Numerals Double Eagle
1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle. Arabic Numerals. MS-66+ (PCGS).
The exquisite Superb Gem surfaces on this coin will appeal to even the most discerning of 20th century gold specialists. Intense mint frost accents vivid golden-apricot color. The strike is full for the issue, and the coin is virtually pristine. Rare at the assigned grade level, this coin would make an important addition to the finest collection of Saint-Gaudens double eagles or a stellar-quality type set.
The 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle with regular instead of Roman numerals represents the culmination of a complicated design process. Despite the unquestionable beauty of the MCMVII High Relief pieces (to say nothing of their Ultra High Relief predecessors), the Mint required a simplified design that could be struck adequately with a single stroke of the dies and otherwise meet the needs of mass production for commercial use. The result is the Arabic Numerals type, Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber's reduction of the low relief model prepared by Henry Hering, Augustus Saint-Gaudens' assistant. Barber's expression of the date in ordinary (or Arabic) numerals followed Hering's model, although the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was still omitted from the design by order of President Theodore Roosevelt, who felt that the use of a deity's name on coinage was akin to blasphemy. It would require action from Congress to include the motto on the Saint-Gaudens double eagle beginning in 1908. The Mint released the first examples of the low relief double eagle to the general public on December 13, 1907, with a total of 361,667 pieces produced by year's end.
PCGS Population: 39; 20 finer (MS-68 finest).
PCGS# 9141. NGC ID: 26F5.
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