Rare $20 Double Eagle Gold Coin

People often ask us what a rare $20 Double Eagle Gold Coin is worth. Well, a fashion mogul Stuart Weitzman's 1933 Double Eagle gold coin sold for $18.9 million at Sotheby's Auction in New York! It shattered the world auction record. In fact, it nearly doubled the record for the world's most valuable coin ever sold.

 

But, why was this rare $20 Double Eagle Gold Coin worth so much? It was because the 1933 edition of the Double Eagle never entered circulation. Consequently, nearly all of them were returned to the US government and melted down. There were only a few of these coins that somehow entered the market. Therefore, the Secret Service in 1944 declared any of them owned by collectors would be prosecuted. Because, they considered these coins

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