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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 8474669, member: 73489"]Historically, there were TONS of Double Eagles overseas -- savvy dealers had full-time people like Paul Wittle scouring Swiss, French, and other European banks looking for Double Eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's where the bulk of today's Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles came from....Europe ! They escaped the melt-downs of the 1930's. <b>The coins started to come back here in the 1950's and they turned some of the key rarity rankings upside down.</b> The coins continued to come over in large quantities up through the mid-1970's as I understand it. Once you had the rise in gold run its course, you pretty much got most of the low-haning fruit. </p><p><br /></p><p>That's why the volume of coins here is so suprising and makes me wonder if it wasn't a few banks and/or some wealthy individuals who held their coins personally but then had them included in this "Fairmont" hoard. Ya never know....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>It's one thing to miss a SDB of a dozen or a few dozen coins. </b> It's quite another to not have talk/knowledge over the years about a stash of TENS OF THOUSANDS of gold coins. At least it seems a bit strange to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 8474669, member: 73489"]Historically, there were TONS of Double Eagles overseas -- savvy dealers had full-time people like Paul Wittle scouring Swiss, French, and other European banks looking for Double Eagles. That's where the bulk of today's Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles came from....Europe ! They escaped the melt-downs of the 1930's. [B]The coins started to come back here in the 1950's and they turned some of the key rarity rankings upside down.[/B] The coins continued to come over in large quantities up through the mid-1970's as I understand it. Once you had the rise in gold run its course, you pretty much got most of the low-haning fruit. That's why the volume of coins here is so suprising and makes me wonder if it wasn't a few banks and/or some wealthy individuals who held their coins personally but then had them included in this "Fairmont" hoard. Ya never know....:D [B]It's one thing to miss a SDB of a dozen or a few dozen coins. [/B] It's quite another to not have talk/knowledge over the years about a stash of TENS OF THOUSANDS of gold coins. At least it seems a bit strange to me.[/QUOTE]
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