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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;phubanks, post: 917149, member: 23286&quot;]I was just reading about the 1907 UHR Gold Coin in this book &quot;100 Greatest American Coins&quot; available here ... </p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/100-Greatest-U-S-Coins-3rd/dp/0794825613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1276340235&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/100-Greatest-U-S-Coins-3rd/dp/0794825613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1276340235&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/100-Greatest-U-S-Coins-3rd/dp/0794825613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1276340235&amp;sr=8-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And they described how there was a lot of experimentation at the U.S.Mint in 1907 and one of the experiments was to produce a $20 UHR gold coin at 1/2 the diameter (the diameter of the $10 gold piece) and twice the thickness.&nbsp; An original 1907 1/2 diameter, 2x thickness $20 St. Gaudens gold coin can be viewed in the Smithsonian Coin Collection Exhibit in Washington DC.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was some legal issues (then as now) since apparently it&#039;s illegal to produce two denominations using the same diameter planchets, so it&#039;s speculated that the coin was originally made in 1907 as a novelty.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint&#039;s 2009 minting of the UHR gold coin was a recreation of this old rarity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is news to me as I always thought the original 1907 UHR Gold Coin was of standard diameter (with the rest of the $20 St Gaudens gold pieces) -- and the restrike of this coin in 2009 was done using 1/2 diameter planchets on a whim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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