The only design change for this coin was the quick addition of the IN GOID WE TRUST Motto which has left collectors with the No Motto type 1 and the With Motto type 2. The new Double Eagle had a busy design with much detail yet was in no way cluttered and every part of the coin truly complimented each other. Saint-Gaudens overperformed his expectations to say the very least by anyone’s standards.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens may not be overly well-known today but at the start of the 20th century he was one of America’s most famous and skilled sculptors. This was not the first nor last time new designs were made on American coinage for the sole purpose of the United States wanting to have the world’s most eye appealing money. The attractiveness of this coin and its name came to be when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was selected to redesign certain coinage under President Theodore Roosevelt’s directive. For many reasons beyond just its looks this series is certainly one of the more popularly collected gold coins in American numismatics. The Saints then remained until the very end which was 1933 when the rein of circulating gold coinage in America came to an end. America's most beautifully designed gold coin, the Saint Gaudens Double Eagle, succeeded the long lasting Liberty Head series in 1907.

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