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Edited by
SparklingCrystal 💖💎
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Wed 07/01/20 02:52 PM
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In "The Closer" they have a case which has to do with 2 double eagle gold coins from 1933. Minted, but never officially circulated, a few 'escaped' melting and thus these are very rare and very expensive. They mentioned 8 million a piece!! Holy cow!
So me thinking, let's Google that to see if these things really existed. And yup, gold 20 dollar coins from 1933, never officially circulated. From Wikipedia: The 1933 double eagle is a United States 20-dollar gold coin. Although 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens double eagle were minted in 1933, none were ever officially circulated, and all but two were ordered to be melted down. However, 20 more are known to have been rescued from melting by being stolen and found their way into the hands of collectors before later being recovered. Nine of the recovered coins were destroyed, making this one of the world's rarest coins, with only 13 known specimens remaining—only one of which is privately owned. The two intentionally spared coins are in the U.S. National Numismatic Collection, ten others are held in the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, and the one remaining recovered coin was sold in 2002 to an anonymous private owner who paid US$7.59 million for it (equivalent to $10,883,823.74 as of 2020)[1] —the second-highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin (the most expensive U.S. coin is a 1794 Flowing Hair dollar that sold for $10,016,875 in 2013; equivalent to $11,092,447.36 as of 2020) Now worth TEN million??? I want one! LOL. 
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Darn you FDR for making it illegal to own those back then and now.The remaining ones are in Fort Knox and are goverment property/belong to Uncle Sam.1933 ones sure are a beauty.
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