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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 443262, member: 4626&quot;]There is the one, the King Farouk one (well it&#039;s widely believed to be that one, evidence strongly suggests it is)... that after a big legal fight, the government decided to make legal, after getting part of the auction proceeds.&nbsp; Was sold at auction in 2002 to an anonmous buyer (still nobody knows who it is... was rumored to be Bill Gates at one time but that has been disproven) for about $7.6 million, the highest amount ever paid for a coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s the only 1933 double eagle the government currently considers legal to privately own.&nbsp; Logic dictates it has to be that one; if it wasn&#039;t, whoever had it wouldn&#039;t be publcily displaying it, lest the government seize it!</p><p><br /></p><p>When ANA&#039;s World Series of Money came to Denver a while ago, they displayed the 10 1933 double eagles seized from the descendants of Israel Switt, I got to see those (Switt&#039;s heirs were trying to dispute the government&#039;s seizure... haven&#039;t heard anything about it for a while, but don&#039;t think they&#039;ve been succesful, at least not yet).</p><p><br /></p><p>So there&#039;s a sum total of 13 known to exist... the 10 Switt ones, currently held by the government... 2 in the Smithsonian... and the only one the government currently considers legal to privately own that was bought in the 2002 auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>If any others exist, whoever has them is keeping quiet about it, lest the government seizes them.&nbsp; Unless they can ever come up with a legal argument that they can legally own them that will stick in court (the legality of owning them has never been court tested... the single legal one was made legal after an out of court settlement).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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