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Coronet Head Double Eagles

When digging into any topic for a Bargain Collector column, it always seems both wise and easy to stay away from the biggest circulating coin the United States Mint ever produced, the gold $20 double eagles. After all, they are big – with each containing 0.9675 ounces of gold – they have some amazing rarities within the series and they will always seem to be too expensive, especially if we want to cap any purchases for our collections at perhaps $100. But this one time let’s take a flight of fancy and see

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