1915 $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS MS64+ (CAC)

We at AUCM are proud to offer a simply stunning Condition Rarity, a 1915 $20 Saint-Gaudens double eagle, graded PCGS MS64+ (CAC). Jeff Garrett writes, "As the mintage would suggest, the 1915 issue is ... scarce in all grades. It is similar in rarity to the 1914 issue and is usually found in MS 60 to MS 63. Choice examples [MS 63] become quite scarce and at the Gem level the date becomes very rare and valuable.... The Smithsonian collection contains two coins that would grade MS 64." Along a similar vein, gold specialist David Akers says, "Above MS-63, the 1915 is not seen very often and gems are really very rare."

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."