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In GOLD We Trust! - Post Your Favorite $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagles - (Types 1, 2 & 3)
Stuart
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I’m pleased to share some of my favorite $20 Liberty Gold Double Eagles in my collection with my fellow forum members. 😁
1852 $20 Gold Double Eagle (Type 1) - PCGS AU-58 
1873 (Open 3) $20 Liberty (Type 2) Double Eagle - PCGS MS-61
1873-S (Closed 3) $20 Liberty (Type 2) Double Eagle - PCGS AU-58
1890-CC $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle - (Improved Images - 2019)
1893-CC $20 Liberty (Type 3) Double Eagle - PCGS AU-58
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
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Very nice, Thank you for sharing with us.
Very nice, all of them. Would love to see the PL 90CC up close!
Those 20$ liberties are my favorite coin sadly it is unlikely I will own one in the next 15 years at least.
Here is a Type 1 graded AU58 and CAC approved.
Type 2 also graded AU58 and CAC approved. The 1874 $20 is ex Eliasberg.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Here are a few of mine...
A generic, but a really pretty one:
Like cocaine for the eyes!
@JustACommeman That’s a Drop-Dead Gorgeous 1857-S $20 Liberty!! 😁
She’s worthy of a larger sized photo post. — Thanks for sharing her with us.👍
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Why so few?
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
MS65+ w/CAC.
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
I have always wanted a $20 Gold Liberty that I could wear........
to coin shows.
OINK
@Kaz Thanks for your kind words.
An interesting story about how I acquired the 1890-CC $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle.
I traded around $3K in silver bullion about 10 years ago, when the price of silver was higher, and the market value of CC $20 Libs was lower — only about 1/3 of today’s price.
Turned out to be a great trade for me! 😁
1890-CC $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle - NGC AU-58
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@Stuart .... Really nice gold coins....Especially the CC gold... combines my two favorites... gold and CC.... Cheers, RickO
posted before, but i ** really ** like this coin...a favorite for sure!
thanks @RYK
Common, but pretty:
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Great thread! Beautiful golden eye candy.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
1893 cc !!!
Courtesy picture post for @Timbuk3
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
I like them in the correct plastic......:D
Me too Tim
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
@CrazyHoundDog I love the Original Copper Colored Mint Bloom on the obverse and reverse devices of your 1898-S $20 Liberty Gold Double 🦅 🦅 Eagle!! 😁👍
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Here's a generic with lots of flash:
And a non-generic with lots of character:
Thank you for brightening up my evening at Work. There's just something about a $20 Liberty that just lights me up. It reminds me of the first time I ever saw a Morgan Silver Dollar , at about 5 years of age. It's Just Magic. Sort of like Catnip to me.
Profliz, both are outstanding coins, the muted but rich brownish gold 1861 is really a beautiful sight to behold.
The $20 Liberty is the one series that I actually prefer the reverse. It reminds me of the age of Iron and steel at the turn of the century, like it is actually part of the design. The reverse elements actually look like wrought Iron ornamentation.
My only Lib. - common date 1904 - just the reverse.
Allow me to Wax Poetic: 😁
@ARCO With Reference to your following quoted post IMO part of the beauty of a $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle is the Balanced combination of the Classic yet Elegant obverse design in its simplicity, complimented by the detailed Symbolic yet Complex reverse.
The above mentioned design features when executed on a 34 millimeter Artistic Canvas of nearly 1 Ounce of Gold exhibiting strong Cartwheel effect swirling Mint Luster has a Mesmerizing effect on me, and is always quite a pleasure for the senses to behold (both visual and tactile).
1873 (Open 3) $20 Liberty (Type 2) Double Eagle - PCGS MS-61
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
My 66 CAC
My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
@Traz Your 1857-S PCGS-66 (CAC) $20 Gold Liberty (Type 1) Double Eagle is so beautiful that it deserves the following Enlarged Courtesy Photo Post!! 😁
IMO part of the beauty of a $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle is the Balanced combination of the Classic yet Elegant obverse design in its simplicity, complimented by the detailed Symbolic yet Complex reverse.
The above mentioned design features when executed on a 34 millimeter Artistic Canvas of nearly 1 Ounce of Gold exhibiting strong Cartwheel effect swirling Mint Luster has a Mesmerizing effect on me, and is always quite a pleasure for the senses to behold (both visual and tactile).
Your coin embodies my above description of a $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle and perfectly Exhibits those qualities!! 😁
Thanks for sharing her with us!👍
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
This 1857-S is among my favorites although it is in "the wrong holder."
1896 was year of the battle between the "gold bugs" and "silver bugs"
And I like this 1873 Type II although the bottom has dropped out of the market.
Thanks it is pretty bad ass in hand 😀
My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
@BillJones
Thanks for posting your beautiful 1857-S (Type 1) $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle!! 😁
IMO It doesn’t matter what type or brand of TPGS holder it’s in, that’s a Stunning Coin!!👍👍
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
I really love the $20 Gold Liberty (Types 1, 2 & 3) Double Eagle images posted so far in this thread.
Let’s keep it going... 😁👍
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
1854 large date XF40 OGH CAC
Not seeing one from the first year of circulation - 1850- here is mine:
For those interested in the provenance of this particular specimen, here is a summary:
This is the coin identified as possibly unique on the [original] Coinfacts site as the first $20 proof/presentation piece, excepting the 1849 specimen in the Smithsonian. ....."
As noted on the holder, it once belonged to C.W. Green. Interestingly in reading Breen's book cataloging gold proofs I came across a reference by Breen to the very coin. He noted that there were possibly several Presentation Pieces a/k/a proofs made of the first $20 gold piece available for circulation in 1850. He went on to note that Green was reported to have one, but that he had never seen it himself. In addition, the coin is featured on CoinFacts.com as its first described "Significant example" of the 1850 Double Eagle, and CoinFacts further notes under Mintage, "Proofs: Unique?"
Here is the above referenced "Coin Facts" description of the coin and its more recent auction history:
"Significant examples:
SEGS Proof-62, "Presentation/PL, enhanced surfaces". Ex - Superior Galleries' "Pre-Long Beach Sale" May 27-29, 2001, Lot 4170A, where it was described as follows: "1850 SEGS graded Proof 62 marked "Presentation/PL" and " Enhanced Surfaces". The coin is also pedigreed to Dr. C. W. Green and so noted on the holder. This is the first collectible issue of the United States Double Eagle series. This coin has a beautiful bold strike with full stars and all other details sharp and clear. The fields are Prooflike and you can see clearly with magnification that the dies and planchet were enhanced prior to striking...""
Adding to the above:
Through the efforts of poster yosclimber on this forum, an auction description written by Max Mehl for the coin was located from a 1949 auction. It was lot 719 in the 1949 auction.
This is from Max Mehl's auction description:
"719 1850
The most beautiful specimen of this date $20.00 Gold Piece I have ever seen or that I can find record of. This coin was purchased by Dr. Green as a proof...
"The obverse is brilliant and equal to a brilliant proof. The reverse has some proof surface, but not as brilliant as the obverse. I classify it as brilliant semi-proof almost equal to a brilliant proof. It is far superior to any specimen of this date Double-Eagle that has been offered. In fact, none of the collections of Double-Eagles which have appeared in the market in the history of American numismatics have a specimen to compare to it ..."
Numismatic author and researcher Karl Moulton has further determined that this coin with the Green provenance was one and the same as that sold in an even earlier auction in 1870 as one of the coins from Longacre's Estate where it was sold as Lot 178. Of added significance another poster on this board, Rick Snow, chanced to have an original of that 1870 auction catalogue with the added information from penned in notes that the purchaser of the coin was Edward Cogan.
Each of the above described auction descriptions from 1870, 1949, and 2001 are consistent with the subject coin's unique appearance.
The existence of a located in Paris 1850 Double Eagle "Proof" specimen, which was apparently unknown to Breen, first came to my attention after coming across a reference to it in the 2016 book "1849 - The Philadelphia Mint's Gold" by Michael Moran and Jeff Garrett. Apparently it is the only other known "proof" or "proof like" 1850 Double-Eagle known to exist today.
1northcoin---Very neat 1850 double eagle.
Have you tried to cross it over to one of the first tier grading services?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Thanks.
To respond to your inquiry, I have never tried to cross any coin in my collection including some that would probably help me upgrade my position in the Registry Sets. Given its specific identification in the original Coin Facts in its present holder there has been in my view a disincentive to switch to another - especially since I am not trying to sell it.
When David Bowers had the coin to examine while working on his book on Double Eagles he may have had someone from NGC take a look at it but not for the purposes of crossing. FWIW his comment to me was almost identical to yours as he described it to me stating that it was "a most interesting coin" and later writing, "The Liberty Head Double Eagle is one of my favorite series. You certainly have a spectacular 1850!!!"
Not mine, but it is my favorite $20 Liberty!
Got this piece raw from my local dealer who called me as soon as he got it in... so appreciative that he thought of me in this piece.
Only one of mine that I locate at the moment....
A very recent purchase when gold was at $1250; higher grade, CAC, and a semi-numismatically interesting date.
Nice stuff!
Sneaking in a St Gaudens. She's even CAC-ed!
Dave
Picked this one up last week.
This coin is currently PCGS AU58 CAC Ex. Bass. It was previously sold by Stack’s in the R.L. Miles, Jr. Collection in October 1968 where it was described as “Brilliant Uncirculated”. The coin is listed in Akers’ Double Eagle auction analysis as UNC. Only 5 auction appearances of UNC coins were cited.
Thanks for including the backstory. Sure looks uncirculated as pictured.