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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2094671, member: 73489&quot;]Granted, there were coin collectors back then in the 1920&#039;s and 1930&#039;s -- but not that many.&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly, not collecting Saints ($20 was a TON of money back then for most people) and maybe not even Silver Dollars ($1 was alot of money back then, like putting aside $20 bills today).</p><p><br /></p><p>Saint comes off the presses....goes into a bag (maybe if you had pull you got it straight off the mint press, dunno) or a special felt tray (pull, again)....then you probably touch it with your hands, put it in a felt bag (paper bag ?)....take it home...and then put it in an album (did they have them back then ?) or keep it in the felt bag or some other jewelry thing.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Question:&nbsp; Did the coin &#039;circulate&#039; ? </span></b> </p><p><br /></p><p>Not commercially, by my standards...but it touched human hands a few times, maybe even jingled around in a pocket...if the guy got more than 1, maybe the coins banged together in a felt (or paper) pouch...nobody is touching the coin on the sides (probably) and DEFINITELY nobody has gloves on (hospitals didn&#039;t even have them all the time).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>A gold Saint-Gauden going straight from the Mint to a coin collector&#039;s collection 100 years ago came into alot more contact than a gold coin today going from West Point to our collections.</u>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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