August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
Key Date 1931-D Double Eagle
Elusive in All Grades Just 150 Known
1931-D Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle. MS-64 (PCGS).
This is an inviting near-Gem with nice mint luster that mingles with dominant color in vivid golden-apricot. A blush of hazy silver tinting in the center of the obverse brightens to pinkish-rose when viewed with the aid of direct lighting. Striking detail is razor sharp throughout, and the surfaces are expectably smooth for the assigned grade. Rarer even than a limited mintage of 106,500 pieces might imply, the 1931-D is one of the key issues to completion of a Saint-Gaudens double eagle set. As with many gold issues from the 1920s and 1930s, the 1931-D saw the widespread destruction of undistributed examples in the years following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's gold recall of 1933. So elusive are survivors, in fact, that David W. Akers ( A Handbook of 20th Century United States Gold Coins: 1907-1933, 2008 revision) speaks of a small cache of approximately 15 to 20 pieces that entered the numismatic market in the early 1980s as a "hoard." With more than 150 coins believed extant in all grades, the 1931-D is just as rare as the 1920-S in an absolute sense. There are more Mint State coins known for the 1931-D, to be sure, but nowhere near enough to satisfy demand from today's quality conscious gold specialists. One of many significant double eagle offerings in this sale, this 1931-D will be a prized addition to an advanced cabinet or Registry Set.
PCGS# 9193. NGC ID: 26GP.
From Heritage's sale of the Fern E. Wagner Trust, June 2008 Summer FUN Signature Auction, lot 2428.
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| Price realized | 97'500 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 120'000 USD |
