1926-S Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle. MS-65 (PCGS).Gorgeous rose-orange surfaces are highly lustrous with a full endowment of billowy satin luster. Both sides are sharply struck, visually appealing, and uncommonly well preserved in a survivor of this key date issue. Most of the 2,041,500 pieces produced for the 1926-S double eagle were destroyed on government order during the late 1930s. Only a small percentage of this issue escaped that fate through exportation, many of the known examples repatriated from European and other bank holdings during the later decades of the 20th century. This coin likely entered the modern numismatic market in that fashion, although it is far finer than most survivors and ranks as an important condition rarity in Gem Mint State.
