So I was going through an old box of items that a bought at auction, and I found this coin in a velvet purple pouch. I could not believe my luck as this could be the one of the rarest coins of all time. The 1933 double eagle $20 dollar gold piece recently sold for at auction for 7.5 million dollars. The coin did not stick to my magnet so I know it is real and made of gold. Now I head there was a story a while back about stolen double eagle coins involving the secret service and a coin dealer from Philadelphia, but I hope to avoid all of this as I will put up the coin for sale.
Doing more research, the United States went off of the gold standard in 1933 and these coins are supposedly not legal tender and are illegal to own. No way! I found this legit in a box at an auction and I am going to sell this fast. The good thing about my coin is that it's much shinier than those dirty double eagles that you may have seen in an auction catalog or on the Wikipedia page.
Please see the scan below of one of the rarest coins in the world.
According to Wiki, this coin is the Saint-Gaudens double eagle and is named for the designer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the premier sculptors in American history. I'll update all the readers of my blog shortly on the sale price and give you more of the details of the sale.
Started typing, "wow, looks like you struck gold!" And then I looked at the date.
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