Showing posts with label St Gaudens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Gaudens. Show all posts
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Half Pound (8oz) Gold Plated Fine Silver Round
This is a nice 8oz (half pound) 24k gold plated silver round by Washington Mint.
The design is a replica of Saint-Gaudens US Gold Double Eagle, for which the 1933 date sold for a world record price of US$7.5 million back in 2002!!!
Very interesting read about how President Franklin Roosevelt taking American off the Gold standard led to the rarity of the 1933 Saint-Gaudens Gold Double Eagle:
The design is a replica of Saint-Gaudens US Gold Double Eagle, for which the 1933 date sold for a world record price of US$7.5 million back in 2002!!!
Very interesting read about how President Franklin Roosevelt taking American off the Gold standard led to the rarity of the 1933 Saint-Gaudens Gold Double Eagle:
http://coins.about.com/od/famousrarecoinprofiles/p/1933_Gold_Eagle.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_eagle
Sadly, I don't own the real McCoy and this gold plated art round is about the closest I can get (and afford) to the real thing :)
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