1912 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS64

With a mintage of 149,750 this issue is a better date in the Saint-Gaudens' double eagle series. Plus the Philadelphia Mint was the only one to strike double eagles in 1912. This would be a great type coin to add to your collection. PCGS has graded 474 in MS64 with 91 finer.

Scholar Cornelius Vermeule compares Saint-Gaudens' Liberty to the Winged Victory of Samothrace (above, c. 200-190 BCE).

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 [Winged] 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."