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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8162603, member: 73489&quot;]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30000">The answer to which rarity post-WW II&nbsp; has changed the LEAST over the decades is below....but first a bit of commentary from David Akers:</span></font></b></p><p><b><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></font></b></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">&quot;...The standing of the 1921 in the overall hierarchy of Saint-Gaudens double eagle rarities has changed less over the last seven decades than any other regular issue in the series. During that time, some issues have dropped precipitously from their place at the top (1924-S and 1926-S for example) and others have risen substantially (1920-S, 1930-S and especially 1927-D) but the 1921 has always been recognized as being among the top four rarities of the series, both 70 years ago and today, at least with respect to value. </span><b><span style="color: #0000ff">The only thing that has changed is the other three coins with it at the top. </span></b></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">The 1921 is now considered to be the second most valuable regular issue Saint-Gaudens double eagle, surpassed only by the 1927-D whose extreme rarity was not recognized fully until the 1950s, at least in comparison to other issues in the series. Judged solely on its population rarity, meaning the total number of specimens known in all grades, the 1921 is certainly rare, but not exceptionally so, comparable overall to the 1920-S, but actually less rare than the 1930-S and 1932. </span></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><b>However, as a condition rarity it is the unrivaled &quot;Queen&quot; of the Saint-Gaudens series because the condition at which it becomes extremely rare and valuable is lower than for any other issue. </b>Of course, every Saint is a condition rarity at a certain level. For example, any issue is (or would be if one existed) a great rarity in MS68 or 69. For some issues MS67 is the rarity point, for others it is MS65 or MS66. <b>But no issue, not even the 1927-D, is as difficult to locate in MS64 or higher grades as the 1921.</b> Only four or possibly five specimens are known in the MS65 and MS66 grades combined with nothing finer. Even in the MS63 and 64 grades, the 1921 is a major rarity with no more than 12-15 examples known of those two grades combined.&quot;</span></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></i></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0080ff"><b>So the answer is #4....the 1921 Saint has remained the most stable. </b></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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