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[[File:NNC-US-1849-G$20-Liberty Head (Twenty D.).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The 1849 Liberty Head design by [[James B. Longacre]] ]]
[[File:NNC-US-1907-G$20-Saint Gaudens (Roman, high relief).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The 1907 high relief double eagle designed by [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]]
A '''double eagle''' is a [[gold coin]] of the [[United States]] with a denomination of $20.<ref name="ForDummies">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ceRKqjyfxcC&pg=PA178 |page=178 |title=Coin Collecting For Dummies |first1=Neil S. |last1=Berman |first2=Ron |last2=Guth |year=2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781118052181}}</ref> (Its gold content of 0.9675 [[Troy weight|troy]] oz (30.0926 grams) was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/oz.) The coins are 34 mm x 2 mm and are made from a 90% gold (0.900 fine = 21.6 kt) and 10% copper alloy and have a total weight of 1.0750 troy ounces (33.4362 grams).
The [[Eagle (United States coin)|eagle]], [[half eagle]], and [[quarter eagle]] were defined by name in the [[Act of Congress]] originally authorizing them.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/coinage-act-of-april-2-1792 |title=Mint Act of 1792 |work=[[U.S. Mint]]}}</ref> Likewise, the double eagle was created by the [[Coinage Act of 1849]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1094 |title=An Act to Authorize the Coinage of Gold Dollars and Double Eagles. |location=30th Congress, 2d Session, Ch. 109. 9 Stat. 397 |work=[[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]] |access-date=3 September 2018}}</ref> Since the $20 gold piece had twice the value of the eagle, these coins were designated "double eagles". Before, the most valuable American coin was the $10 gold eagle, first produced in 1795, two years after the [[United States Mint]] opened.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/collectibleameri0000bres_d2s5 |url-access=registration |year=1991 |title=Collectible American Coins |last=Bressett |first=Kenneth |publisher=Crescent Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/collectibleameri0000bres_d2s5/page/85 85] |isbn=9780517035870}}</ref>
The production of the first double eagle coincided with the 1849 [[California Gold Rush]].<ref name="ForDummies"/> In that year, the mint produced two pieces in [[Proof coinage|proof]]. The first now resides in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="ForDummies"/> The second was presented to Treasury Secretary [[William M. Meredith]] and was later sold as part of his estate—the present location of this coin remains unknown.{{sfn|Bowers|2004|pp=67–68}}
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In 1904, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] sought to beautify American coinage, and proposed [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]] as an artist capable of the task.{{sfn|Bowers|2004|p=221}} Although the sculptor had poor experiences with the Mint and its chief engraver, [[Charles E. Barber]], Saint-Gaudens accepted Roosevelt's call.{{sfn|Bowers|2004|p=223}} The work was subject to considerable delays, due to Saint-Gaudens's declining health and difficulties because of the high [[relief]] of his design.<ref>{{cite book |last = Burdette |first = Roger W. |year = 2006 |title = Renaissance of American Coinage, 1905–1908 |publisher = Seneca Mill Press |location = Great Falls, Va. |isbn = 9780976898610 |page=72}}</ref> Saint-Gaudens died in 1907, after designing the eagle and double eagle, but before the designs were finalized for production.<ref>* {{cite book |last = Taxay |first = Don |year = 1983 |title = The U.S. Mint and Coinage |publisher = Sanford J. Durst Numismatic Publications |location = New York, N.Y. |edition = reprint of 1966 |isbn = 9780915262687 |pages=315–316}}</ref> The new coin became known as the [[Saint-Gaudens double eagle]].
Regular production continued until 1933,{{sfn|Bowers|2004|p=273}} when the official price of gold was changed to $35/oz by the [[Gold Reserve Act]]. The 1933 double eagle is among the most valuable of U.S. coins, with the sole example currently known to be in private hands–the King Farouk specimen, which was purchased by [[King Farouk]] of [[Egypt]] in 1944–selling in 2002 for $7,590,020 {{sfn|Bowers|2004|p=284}} and resold to an unknown buyer in 2021 for $18.8 million.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Oscar Holland |title=Rare 'Double Eagle' gold coin sells for a record $18.9M |url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/double-eagle-coin-auction-record/index.html |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://primetimezone.com/world/american-gold-coin-is-auctioned-for-18-8-million-zap/_s=PM:US |title=American gold coin is aucutioned for 18.8 million|date=June 8, 2021 }}</ref> Twelve other specimens exist, two of which are held in the [[National Numismatic Collection]] and the [[United States Bullion Depository]] at [[Fort Knox]].
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the [[Great Kentucky Hoard]], over 700 gold coins from 1840–1863, including Double Eagles, have been unearthed at a corn field in Kentucky. Finder and location das anonymous.<ref>[https://orf.at/stories/3323981/ Hunderte historische Goldmünzen in Kentucky entdeckt] orf.at, 14 Juli 2023, abgerufen 14 Juli 2023 (German).</ref>
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