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20 Dollars Saint-Gaudens - Double Eagle, No motto, Roman numerals
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTY MCMVII |
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| Edge | Lettered (E PLURIBUS UNUM with stars) |
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens died in August 1907, just months before his high-relief design entered production — he never saw a struck example. Theodore Roosevelt had personally commissioned him to redesign American coinage, famously declaring U.S. coins the ugliest in the world. The ultra-high relief proof version required up to nine strikes per planchet and could not stack, making it commercially unworkable. The Mint's chief engraver Charles Barber, who openly resented the project, flattened the relief considerably for the regular issue.
The Roman numerals date — MCMVII — was dropped after 1907 in favor of Arabic numerals, at the Mint's insistence. No motto, per Roosevelt's personal objection to placing religious language on money.