I suspect those are very low quality. Still better than nothing, for sure.
Apparently there were 147 Double Eagles in the collection; this Hendricks subset may or may not have included them all when it went up for sale...
Mini-hoards can just be 1 person's SDB stash. The Beverly Hills Bank Hoard which had a few coins from the Saint-Gaudens years of 1929-32 (I...
Good questions....the immediate FEAR is that if you even have 1 or 2 coins in a key date where the existing population is single digits, you could...
Historically, there were TONS of Double Eagles overseas -- savvy dealers had full-time people like Paul Wittle scouring Swiss, French, and other...
Well, unless counterfeits were in a European bank for decades, I guess they are OK. The only risk would be in the sellers overgrading it...
Very interesting: "...As recently as a few years ago, an EF45 1857-S double eagle was a $2,000 coin. Today, it is worth $1,500 and the coins...
Ok, here's what Winter wrote: "....this massive group—likely containing tens of thousands++ of coins—consists of eagles and double eagles dated...
I found lots of information -- mostly Doug Winter columns -- but nothing on the ORIGINS of the hoard itself. Virtually all of them talked about...
Thanks, Treashunt !! :cigar:
You may be waiting a LONG time....:D
The number of Liberty DEs that are close to the price of gold is much much less than that for Saint-Gaudens DEs.
Do you own or are you looking at the Carson City Double Eagles ? Much rarer, demand has skyrocketed, but mid-to-low 50's is somewhat affordable...
To a retail dealer or outlet, sure...but selling $1 MM in gold via the daily gold trading volume wouldn't be that difficult. You can also HEDGE...
Does anybody have any information on the ORIGINS of this collection ? Stacks-Bowers is having another auction on these coins next week. I have...
Good idea, especially since most of the Double Eagles and other gold coins in that collection/hoard are NOT bullion types.
Do we have any dealers here who can comment on the influence of the influx of the FAIRMONT COLLECTION on Double Eagle pricing as of mid-2022 ?
Liberty's have been relatively strong the last 2 years....dragged up by the interest in gold coins & Saints post-Covid and also the specific...
Are you looking at Liberty's or Saints ? Commons or just semi-scare dates ?
Yeah, easily visible.....wonder how it got past Quality Control ?
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