The U.S. mint in New York in 1933 banned the legality of the coin any of them owned that escaped re-melting were deemed as illegal except for one coin own by at the time King Farouk of Egypt who wanted a exportation license on one of the coins BEFORE the New York mint deemed it illegal. Thus because of the exportation license and its LEGAL admittance of ownership, there is only one 1933 Double Eagle coin that can be legally owned. Any other ownership of a Double Eagle coin would result in a immediate investigation and confiscation from the secret service.
Only one is legally owned in a private collection, and it sold for $7.5 million at an auction in 2002. The rest have been confiscated by the U.S. government. Any others are replicas or fakes.
Probably the 1933 $20 gold double eagle. Only 13 are known to exist, and 12 of them are owned by the government.
In 2002 a 1933 double eagle sold for over $7.5 million. However, not every 1933 double eagle floating around is going to be worth that much. The reason is that other than the 1933 double eagle sold in the 2002 auction, no other 1933 double eagle is legal to own. No 1933 double eagles were released for circulation, however 445,500 were minted and all were supposed to have been melted down. Some though escaped the mint and the US Secret Service has seized nearly 20 coins that had escaped the mint because they believe that they are still technically the government's property. The reason one 1933 double eagle is legal to own is because the US government issued an export certificate for it in 1933 to allow it to be exported to Egypt before realizing that no 1933 double eagles had been released for circulation.
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Double Headed Eagle Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 - 1973 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
The ONLY legal 1933 double eagle sold in 2002 for $7,590,020.00
No, because other than the 1 authorized specimen they are illegal to own and technically aren't monetized (the buyers of the authorized 1933 double eagle had to pay the US mint $20 to monetize the coin). So, I suppose if you paid the millions for that one 1933 double eagle you could spend it, but otherwise no.
The US government claims that the 1933 Double Eagle coins cannot be the legal possession of any member of the public, as they were never issued and hence they remain the property of the US government.
If you can find someone that collects this stuff, $5dollars maybe a little more..
Only 4 denominations were struck in 1933, the Lincoln cent a Walking Liberty Half dollar a Indian Head $10.00 gold eagle and the $20.00 Saint-Gaudens double eagle
The only legal example sold for $7,590,020 in July of 2002.
These copy's of the 1933 Double Eagle have no numismatic collectible value, most sell for $5.00 or less at coin shows.