On Tuesday, a rare $20 double eagle gold coin sold for $1.44 million, about 70,000 times its initial value. The coin was one of many items dating back to days of California Gold Rush and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Avid coin collectors jumped at the chance to get their hands on a rare $20 “double eagle” gold coin at a Southern California auction house Tuesday afternoon, but only one ...

What we thought could only happen in our wildest imaginations was the reality of a California couple who found $10 million worth of rare gold coins buried underneath their property. This ...

News reached this city yesterday in a private cable dispatch from London that the highest premium ever brought by a California gold coin was paid yesterday at Sotheby's sale of the coin collection ...

Prior to 1849, the highest denomination for a gold coin was $10, known as the eagle. The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply ...

According to the auction house, this 1870-Carson City (CC) $20 gold piece is one of only 3,789 ever made. Somewhere between 35 and 65 of these pieces survive to this day. While there isn’t a ...

The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply, Kraljevich said. The last time this specific coin was sold was at a Stack’s auction in ...

Avid coin collectors jumped at the chance to get their hands on a rare $20 “double eagle” gold coin at a Southern California auction house Tuesday afternoon, but only one walked away victorious after ...