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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8267047, member: 73489&quot;]Not &quot;so many&quot;....<b>virtually ALL of the coins that survive to this day</b> -- 3.7 million at last count -- probably came from overseas, either Europe or South/Central America. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>That&#039;s one of the most fascinating things about collecting Double Eagles and Saints:&nbsp; the fact that they largely survive because they were used in balance-of-payments transfers and were not in American vaults from 1933-37 and thus escaped melting.</u></p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s more, the place where coins were likely to be shipped to Europe was from New York and Philadelphia (East Coast, closer to Europe).&nbsp; So the 1927 (Philly struck) was sent overseas and is plentiful to this day in grades up to MS-65....but the 1927-D (Denver) and 1927-S (San Francisco) were not used in trade largely and stayed in the vaults and got melted down 10 years later....<b><span style="color: #0000ff">which is why they are super-rarities.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hoards and overseas survivorship track perfectly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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