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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: DOUBLE EAGLES - SAINT-GAUDENS
Item Description: $20 1915
Full Grade: NGC MS 62
Owner: jtryka

Set Details

Custom Sets: North Coast Limited 2
Competitive Sets: North Coast Limited   Score: 2600
Powhatan Arrow   Score: 2600
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for Saint-Gaudens $20 (1907-1933)

Owner Comments:

This coin is a recent upgrade, and is a very nice example for the grade. Like the 1913, the 1915 Philadelphia issues become quite rare in higher grades, but unlike its cousin two years its elder, the 1915 is most often very sharply struck, with brilliant luster. Akers in his difining book on 20th Century Gold picks the 1915 as the issue with the greatest eye appear of all the W/Motto Philadelphia issues from 1908 to 1915. Looking at this coin, it's easy to agree. Other notable events of 1915, the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland killing 1,195 passengers and crew, including 128 Americans.

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