1906-S Liberty Head Double Eagle
The 1906-S double eagle has a mintage of 2,065,750 pieces ($41,415,000 face value). Most were exported, repatriations in recent decades bringing the Mint State population into the mid to high four-figure range. Yet despite its availability in an absolute sense, the 1906-S is scarce at the near-Gem threshold and rare any finer.
The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the June 2014 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $111,625.