The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 17, April 21, 2002, Article 12

1933 $20 SAINT-GAUDENS PUBLICITY

  Stephen G Searle sends this link to a New York Times
  article about the upcoming auction of the infamous
  1933 Double Eagle:

  "It is a $20 gold piece from 1933 that was ordered
  destroyed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Stolen
  from the United States Mint, it was exported for a king
  after the government committed the bumble of all bumbles,
  was contested in an interminable legal donnybrook,
  and even came close to being lost in the destruction of the
  World Trade Center.

  It is the 1933 double eagle, and it could fetch a record
  price for any coin when it is auctioned in July for an
  estimated $4 million to $6 million."

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/nyregion/19COIN.html

  Stephen adds: "By the way, there is a HUGE color photo
  of the coin on the front page of the Metro section of the print
  version of the NY Times today (Friday 19 April 2002).  It
  takes up about half of the space above the fold."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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