1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle. Arabic Numerals. MS-65 (NGC).，This is a lovely Gem with a tinge of reddish-rose patina to otherwise medium gold surfaces. It is lustrous, nicely preserved, and sure to see spirited bidding at auction. The 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle with Arabic instead of Roman numerals represents the culmination of a complicated design process. Despite the beauty of the MCMVII High Relief pieces (to say nothing of their Ultra High Relief predecessors), the Mint required a simplified design that could be struck adequately with a single stroke of the dies and otherwise meet the needs of mass production for commercial use. The result is the Arabic Numerals type, Chief Engraver Charles Barbers reduction of the low relief model prepared by Henry Hering, Augustus Saint-Gaudens assistant. Barbers expression of the date in ordinary (or Arabic) numerals followed Herings model, although the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was still omitted from the design by order of President Theodore Roosevelt, who felt that the use of a deitys name on coinage was akin to blasphemy. It would require action from Congress to include the motto on the Saint-Gaudens double eagle beginning in 1908. The Mint released the first examples of the low relief double eagle to the general public on December 13, 1907, with a total of 361,667 circulation strikes produced by years end.<p>Thanks to the repatriation from foreign bank hoards of thousands of examples in recent decades, the 1907 Arabic Numerals is a readily obtainable issue in lower Mint State grades through MS-64. Gems in MS-65 remain scarce by the standards of the type, however, and this issue is rare any finer. The offered coin is a find for quality conscious gold type collectors or Saint-Gaudens double eagle specialists.，PCGS# 9141. NGC ID: 26F5.，，From the Murray Hill Collection. Earlier from our (Stacks) 71st Anniversary Sale, October 2006, lot 2410.
