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 ...

about a year into California’s gold rush. They are emblazoned with three different designs. Liberty head (Coronet) coins were manufactured from 1849 to 1856. From 1854 to 1856, an Indian head ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...