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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 4501362, member: 31286&quot;]I have a modest collection of type 1 double eagles. A few years ago a bought an 1853/2 variety coin in a circulated grade.&nbsp; Very nice piece and much better than most.&nbsp; Sometime in last couple of years a hoard was discovered that apparently had a lot of this particular variety.&nbsp; How that happens where it impacts just one variety, I can&#039;t imagine.&nbsp; The stash must have been from the bank bag or something - but one might expect that to be more likely with uncirculated coins, no? I mean, once they get out in circulation I wouldn &#039;t expect an esoteric variety like that to dominate any &quot;bunch&quot; of them - but it happened. So the value went around 4K to $2500 based on Heritage sales.&nbsp; I was fortunate to trade it for something else that I wanted for a different collection&nbsp; - a trade that worked pretty well for both parties.&nbsp; But wow, it is sobering - it seems like double eagles are particularly vulnerable to hoards - makes sense I guess.&nbsp; If someone is going to stash gold somewhere it&#039;s most likely going to be the heaviest pieces.&nbsp; With Morgans I can imagine where they could come straight from a bank to rolls or whatever and they might all be same year, same mint - seems to make more sense.&nbsp; But one strange variety of a $20 gold piece gathered together?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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