Lot 4084
1913-S $20 St. Gaudens. PCGS graded MS-65. Well struck with rich golden toning on both sides. Scarce date in this high grade. Very nice for the grade. A gorgeous specimen, mint-fresh with fantastic peach-orange to crimson toning, as sleek and glossy as when it was first snatched from a bank before distribution into circulation. So ends the discussion of the luster, but not our immense admiration of it. Now on to the detail. This piece is not just close to, but completely and carefully struck, with terrific detail at Liberty's drapery folds, her knee (nice and rounded at the peak, not flat with rub), the little toes, and, on the side with the soaring eagle, similar terrific detail. No nasty surprises with this one. In life, the part allotted to the collector sometimes stinks, with only now and then an enlivening coin to break the endless dreary line of so-so offerings. However, this coin has the character to make any collector sit up and take notice, to break that chain of mediocrity. One time only will you have to bid on it, then, unless we miss our guess, this 1913-S double eagle will go into deep storage in some major collection, where it will remain hidden and not see the light of day again for years. Pop 17; 1 in 66. (PCGS # 9163) .
Estimated Value $35,000 - 40,000.
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