Twenty
Dollar Gold piece (Double Eagle)
On 18 September 1877, Sam Bass and his gang stole 60,000 dollars-worth
of freshly-minted gold pieces that were headed from the San
Francisco mint to a bank somewhere on the east coast. There
was only one kind of $20 gold piece in circulation at that time,
the twenty-dollar “Double Eagle.”
In 1933, gold coins
were discontinued. Because of the Gold Reserve Act, or "gold
law,” all gold coins were collected by the U.S. government
and melted down to be stored in bars at Fort
Knox.
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