1909-S $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS63 Ex.Rive d'Or Collection

Here’s a more affordable option for the numismatist who would like to add an attractive S-Mint “Saint” to his or her collection.

Gold specialist David Akers writes, “Most 1909-S double eagles are very sharply struck and have ‘soft’ frosty surfaces and some granularity. A few are rather satiny....Lustre is good to very good ....Color, however, is a strong point with most specimens having very appealing greenish gold to light rose or orange color. Many specimens have distinctly ‘rounded’ rims."

PCGS has graded 2,254 as MS63 with 2,627 finer. Collectors Universe prices the 1909-S Saint at $3,000.00 in MS63.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace c. 200-190 BC. Cornelius Vermeule writes of this coin design, “The Liberty striding forward is as grand in miniature as the Hellenistic Victory of Samothrace on a heroic scale.” Photo: wikipedia.

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."