The 1933 double eagle (United States 20-dollar gold coin) is a coin which currently holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin. It was purchased for US$7.59 million. 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens double eagle were minted in 1933, the last year of production for the double eagle, but no specimens ever officially circulated and nearly all were melted down, due to the discontinuance of the domestic gold standard in 1933.
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“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The Eagle has landed.”
—Neil Armstrong (b. 1930)