article_snippet.sent: US Department of the Treasury officials insist the $20 Double Eagles were stolen from the US Mint in Philadelphia before the 1933 series was melted down when the country went off the gold standard.
article_snippet.sent: Ten 1933 Double Eagle coins, which were almost all destroyed when the US went off the gold standard, have been given back to A family after a length legal dispute with Government .
article_snippet.sent: Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens designed the Double Eagle with a flying eagle on one side and a figure representing liberty on the other.
article_snippet.sent: The Mint struck nearly a half-million of the Double Eagles in Philadelphia in 1933 but never released The Langbords after President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned the gold standard and prohibited using the coins as currency.
article_snippet.sent: The . 1933 'Double Eagle' was dreamed up by President Roosevelt’s distant .
article_snippet.sent: In industry speak, an 'eagle' is $10, hence the term 'double eagle' for the $20 1933 examples.
article_snippet.sent: Alison Frankel, a journalist who wrote a history of the 1933 Double Eagles, told the New York Times that Berke had an 'amazing accomplishment' by making the government prove that no coins could have possible gotten out of Mint legally.
article_snippet.sent: Switt, who died in 1990, admitted to the Secret Service in 1944 that he had possessed and sold a set of nine other Double Eagles, which were recovered and destroyed.
article_snippet.sent: Mint sent a pair of 1933 Double Eagles to the Smithsonian Institution for Mint US coin collection.
highlights_snippet.sent: Joan Langbord, in Joan Langbord mid-80s, and sons win back ten 1933 Double Eagles .
  