A Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins (Official Red Book)

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Yes, rare coins can be very dangerous when it comes to making a profit, but collect for enjoyment. Bowers stresses that in this book and every book he has written and I think I own them all. The book is awesome Clueing us all in on the different aspects of each coin. Pricing of course will tell us which issues are rare and which are common. Or your best girlfriend. Bowers words just glide. If you like Double Eagles get the book. If you like History get the book. If you have never bought a rare coin before but are contemplating doing that, most certainly get the book.

And really get all of Davids books. Loads of information about the coin series. Must have for the Double Eagle collectors. A very ample and authoritative compendium for Double Eagle Gold coins, anyone interested in these coins should possess this digest. All that glistens in this book IS gold! Every book by Q. David Bowers is full of knowledge and fascinating to read! Great low price too! Over the next seven years Akers compiled volumes covering every U. Cornelius Vermeule explored the aesthetics of U. Coin World published its Almanac in several editions starting in , providing much technical information and data.

Kenneth Bressett and others codified the grading of U. Burdette dug into the National Archives and other primary sources to build his award-winning Renaissance of American Coinage books. In the midst of this activity, Q. David Bowers emerged as the preeminent author on U.

In he published United States Gold Coins: In his numismatic history of collecting U. Various of his other books of the s and early s, plus hundreds of articles and columns before and since have shared stories and insight on U.

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This collaboration has led to a modern renaissance in American book-publishing in the field of numismatics. The rising tide has lifted the ship of gold, so to speak. Since then Whitman has published an average of one new book either entirely or substantially about gold coins per year, ranging from popular softcovers to also popular page encyclopedias. A few examples of recent gold-related Whitman books:.

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Such a claim could not be made about any other person, past or present. The Guide Book of Gold Eagle Coins —the 24th volume in the Bowers Series, and the 18th of those volumes written by Bowers himself—adds to and solidifies that distinction. The book will begin shipping on November 21, , and in the meantime can be pre-ordered online. Bowers explores the holdings of the National Numismatic Collection, the coins owned by King Farouk of Egypt, and other fascinating side journeys, all described in his engaging and informative style.

Two other legal Double Eagle coins were presented to the U. Rumours persist of other clandestine Double Eagle coins. In , Armen Vartian, a well known lawyer for coin dealers, wrote that he had heard rumors from reliable sources of other privately held Double Eagles.

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A Complete History and Price Guide. Citizens worried about the economy were withdrawing vast amounts of gold coin, causing stress on the banking system. Coins that were 'valued by collectors' were exempt from this order. The Executive Order forbidding gold ownership in the U. The Eagles have Flown.

An unknown number of the Double Eagle coins were removed from the U. Mint sometime between and before the final batch was melted down. Secret Service suggest they were stolen by the U. Mint Cashier, George McCann. The book Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost Double Eagle by David Tripp, former head of Sotheby's coin department, claims that George McCann was foreman of the Weigh Transfer Room in at the Mint when ten thousand dollars in gold was 'lost' - the discrepancy was put down to 'wastage' and forgotten.

In McCann was sentenced to a year in jail over another loss of a bag of ten dollar gold coins from the Mint in , which was not discovered until Israel Switt, a Philadelphia jeweller and gold scrap dealer with a shop at South Eighth Street, sold ten Double Eagle coins or more?

Switt regularly dealt in gold at the cashier's window of the Philadelphia Mint and it has been claimed, and countered, that he was friends with McCann.

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Alison Frankel, author of Double Eagle: On March 18, , the Mint was able to report that all of its double eagles had been melted down into gold bars. Unrelated to the Double Eagles, Switt had been arrested on 22 August at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, when he was caught lugging an unusually heavy briefcase and prosecuted under the new Gold Reserve Act. The trial took four years to go through the courts and in Switt lost his license to trade in gold and forfeited over a hundred gold coins, mainly Double Eagles from the nineteenth century, a severe fine in post-Depression USA.

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The ten Double Eagle coins that Switt sold had been circulating among collectors for 6 or 7 years, most coins changing hands more than once, sometimes publicly advertised. The matter came to the attention of the U. Mint when Ernest Kehr, a journalist for The New York Herald Tribune, contacted them about mintage numbers whilst looking into the history of a Double Eagle coin he had seen in a Stack's coin auction advertisement in Wilson had worked as a detective for years on a number of cases including the Lindbergh kidnapping, the arrest and conviction of corrupt politician Huey Long, and the capture of gangster Al Capone.

Drescher was reassigned to President Truman's protection detail in Despite the evidence pointing to Switt and McCann, plus Switt's business partner and brother-in-law Edward Silver, no-one could be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired. All known examples of the Double Eagle coins: National Numismatic Collection 1. National Numismatic Collection, where they are today. These are the only two double eagles that were not subject to seizure by the U.

Treasury export license on February 29, The Egyptian Government withdrew the coin from sale and stated that they would comply with a US request to return the coin, but it disappeared for more than 40 years.



The Treasury Department realised that they may lose their prosecution of Fenton and Parrino as most of the witnesses involved had died, it was difficult to prove the theft from the Mint after so many years despite one of the federal courts determining that the coins were stolen government property , and the granting of the export license to Farouk had possibility legitimised the coin.