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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rzage, post: 1941596, member: 14070&quot;]I think the government and the person selling the Farouk coin came to an agreement to split the winning bid of around $7,000,000+ . Either way I should have confirmed my assumption 1st .</p><p><br /></p><p>Per Wikipedia .</p><p>The <b>1933 double eagle</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" rel="nofollow">United States</a> 20-dollar gold coin. Although 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_eagle" rel="nofollow">double eagle</a> were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_%28coin%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_%28coin%29" rel="nofollow">minted</a> in 1933 none were ever officially circulated and nearly all were melted down. Around twenty found their way into the hands of collectors, but most of these were subsequently seized or voluntarily turned in to the Secret Service who destroyed them, making this one of the world&#039;s rarest coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two are in the U.S. National Numismatic Collection, one is in the hands of a private owner who paid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US$" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US$" rel="nofollow">US$</a>7.59 million for it in 2002 - the second-highest price paid at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction" rel="nofollow">auction</a> for a single U.S. coin - and ten others are held in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox" rel="nofollow">Fort Knox</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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