Proof High Relief Double Eagles 1907 $20 High Relief PR63

Proof High Relief Double Eagles
1907 $20 High Relief PR63 NGC. The beauty of Saint-Gaudens' double eagle design has long been admired not only by numismatists, but by art lovers as well. Cornelius Vermeule, in his book Numismatic Art in America, wrote:

"The double eagle is perhaps the most majestic coin ever to bear our national imprint. The Liberty striding forward is as grand in miniature as the Hellenistic Victory of Samothrace on a heroic scale. The eagle in flight against the sun on the reverse achieves complete domination of motion and expanding vista over the confines of a tiny tondo. Although the authorities at the Mint flattened the relief to facilitate striking and handling, this coin has remained a forceful demonstration that modern, mechanical coinage need in no way be pedestrian. Even the required additions of IN GOD WE TRUST to these two issues in gold could not ruin the sculptor's relief, spacing, and arrangement of figures vis-à-vis lettering. Both coins seem as modern a century after they were conceived as any issues, American or otherwise, produced in the past generation; and compared with what had been tolerated heretofore in the United States, both burst as artistic skyrockets in the horizons of our academic creativity."

For a long time, NGC was the only major grading service that recognized proof 1907 High Relief double eagles, although in recent years PCGS has begun to designated these coins as Specimen strikings, giving a nod to their special characteristics. Numerous diagnostics identify the proof issue, including the edge collar used for the Ultra High Relief patterns. This Select proof shows a full strike and satiny yellow-gold luster. Some abrasions in the fields limit the numeric grade but are not bothersome to the unaided eye. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice

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