This from Coin World https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...ble-eagles-safe-from-fed-destruction.all.html
More inconsistent nonsense with these things, the one they know about must be with someone connected.
Just a wild thought about the 1933 double eagle held in the United States. File this away in case I happen to be right. You suppose the coin is in the holdings at the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York? FDR was alive when it was built around 1940. Hmmmmmm......might explain why the Mint is not “going after it.” If the Mint slipped Roosevelt a “souvenir” in 1933, I doubt anyone would have cared. There was much more to worry about in those days.
I’ve heard that, too. That led your intrepid sleuth to suggest the Roosevelt library for the double eagle.
I knew a dealer, now deceased, who claimed he saw a 1964-D Peace Dollar. The story, as he told it to me, was kind of shadowy. One of his customers told him he had one. He met the man at an undisclosed location, and he had a chance to see the coin. This was years before Daniel Carr made and distributed his copies. This dealer was a specialist in modern U.S. coins, and he was not the type of person who would spread “tall tales.” I have no reason to believe or disbelieve the story, but I thought you would find it interesting.
About 1980 a good dealer friend told me that he had held one. Today I have to wonder if he was just messing with me. I thought the Smithsonian had one of these. I must have it mixed up with something else.
There very likely are at least one floating around somewhere especially if a President wanted one before they were destroyed. After the Double Eagles though it'll never see the light of day in any time in the next couple of decades without a drastic change in policy or a free pass that they're legal type thing
