An exceptionally rare 1933 “Double Eagle,” one of the last gold coins struck for circulation in the US, almost doubled the previous auction record when it went under the hammer in New York.

The 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin, ... This in turn devalued the dollar, ... It wasn’t until early 1937 that the Philadelphia Mint sent its $50 million worth of coins, ...

An exceptionally rare 1933 “Double Eagle,” one of the last gold coins struck for circulation in the US, almost doubled the previous auction record when it went under the hammer in New York.

Authorities in the Roosevelt era twice looked into Switt's coin dealings, including his possession of Double Eagle coins. In 1944, Switt's license to deal scrap gold was revoked.

The Double Eagle -- an ounce of nearly pure gold -- went up for auction Tuesday night at Sothebys, selling for $6.6 million, plus its $20 face value and a 15 percent fee to the auction house -- a ...

The most valuable coin in the world sits in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in lower Manhattan. It’s Exhibit 18E, secured in a bulletproof glass case with an alarm system and ...

The gold Double Eagle is so rare that in 2002 a single coin reached a price of $7.59m at auction. But the US Mint says that Mrs Langbord's coins could only have been originally obtained in an ...

The previous auction record for a coin was set in 2013 by a 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar, ... Stuart Weitzman’s 1933 Double Eagle Gold Coin Sells for a Record US$18.9 Million at Sotheby’s.

A total of 455,500 double eagle coins were minted in Philadelphia in the 1930s, but were ordered melted down and converted to gold bullion as part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s plan to ...

On Tuesday, a rare $20 double eagle gold coin sold for $1.44 million, about 70,000 times its initial value.The coin was one of many items dating back to days of California Gold Rush and ...