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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 14844476, member: 73489"]Saint-Gaudens Hoards By Date: We'll take it up to WW I with the next batch of hoards..... 1913:  Only 500 of the 5,700 survivors today did NOT come from European banks.  Beat-up coins for the most part from bag circulation among Eurobanks.  Other coins likely from C. America/El Salvador came back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. 1914-S:  Many of these MS60-65 coins trace their pedigrees to hoards that were released into the market during the 15 year period from 1970-1985. 1915-S: Several hoards with 1,000 or more coins have entered the market since the early 1970s, so it is not surprising that the 1915-S is plentiful in lower Mint State grades through MS64. Analysis of authentication and auction records leads to the conclusion that most of the surviving 1915-S coins came from bank accumulations in South and possibly Central America. A whopping ninety-eight percent of all pieces, or approximately 567,000 likely were shipped south during the teens and 1920s. The overall quality of surviving coins is too high for the coins to have been involved in inter-bank transactions in Europe. Further, inventory and weight information for the double eagles recovered from the Kaiseroda mine in Merkers, Germany in 1945 point to nearly all of the coins in that hoard to be less than full weight. 1916-S: David Akers comments that several thousand 1916-S coins were dispersed from hoards that came on the market in the 1970s and 1980s.  The largest of these included more than 4,000 pieces located in El Salvador by MTB.   As was typical, the Central American coins were of higher quality than those from European sources and these pieces account for many of the best specimens available to collectors.  Authentication data imply that about 330,000 pieces were sent to Europe.[/QUOTE]

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