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Sharing new addition: 1908 No motto $20- gold st. Gaudens
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I always wanted a st. Gaudens, so today I traded a 2017 $50- gold eagle for a graded 1908 No motto $20- st. Gaudens. I know 1908 is a common year and may think this wasn’t a good trade but I am happy with it. 🙂
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Common date or not, that's a nice looking $20
Dave
A nice way to start off the new year.
Wayne
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Nice coin and I like the holder. 👍
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I'd make that trade all day every day!
Great trade!
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Congratulations!
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Nice!
I just got a 1915 AU Saint. Nothing particularly special about the coin other than it’s a Saint.
Enjoy!
The 1908 No Motto St. Gaudens $20 gold was my first double eagle. I bought in 1965. for less than $100. That was full strapping retail back then, and then some. I was afraid of getting a counterfeit and knew I didn't know what I was doing at 16 years of age.
I still have the coin. It is in an MS-64 holder.
Very nice trade.
And great adds of the 1908 coins. I had posted close up pics of mine on another thread last month
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/13124779#Comment_13124779
It is a very beautiful coin in hand and pics don't do justice
Edited to add pics of coin in holder.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
Nice old gold in a nice unmolested fatty holder for a modern bullion coin, good trade for you I think.
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Here’s my 1908.
I always liked the 1908 No Motto Saint because it's the only common date Saint that doesn't have the reverse design with the IGWT motto circling the sun which ruins the reverse design in my opinion.
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Nice trade! Much more history behind the Saint than the modern AGE.
Love the big, old gold!
I have a couple of no-mottos.
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I have one just like this, same grade too.
Recently graded...
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Very nice gold Saint.... (and many others in this thread)... I think you did fine in the trade.... Cheers, RickO
Did you notice that Bill, Downtown, JMS & the OP all have a long ray obverse example.
It's the 2nd version of the front and the one used in all subsequent saints.
It's also more rare (69,000 -vs- 150,400)
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Here’s my 1908, my only Saint currently, I want a no-motto to accompany it at some point.
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Really like your NEWP @Ppp
That's a really good looking, unmolested appearing coin in a classic holder to boot. They may be common, but not quite as much as what you traded for it, and certainly not ones that look like that!
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