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And so the current owner of the King Farouk specimen, the only legal tender '33 double eagle, will see his coin maintain it's Unique status.

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/1933- ... -a-conclu/

so sad.... what are they going to do with them? melt them?

Ahhhhhhh the guberment. Could you really expect anything else?

Guess that means I'll have to sit on my ten '33 Saints for another generation. Shhhhhhhhhhhh............don't tell anyone I have them. OK?

Treetop wrote:so sad.... what are they going to do with them? melt them?

Good question. I believe the Smithsonian already has an example, given by the Mint back in the '30s. My guess is that a few will go on tour making the national coin show circuit for a couple years, then join the rest of them in their own little perpetual limbo at Ft. Knox.

Wouldn't at all surprise me if one or two turn up missing in the future.