The addition of the motto IN GOD WE TRUST in 1908 by Congressional mandate resulted in the final major design change for Augustus Saint-Gaudens' double eagle design. The premier Denver Mint issue of the new type, the 1908-D was once considered a major rarity even in lower Mint State grades. Enough examples have been repatriated in recent years - starting with a particularly impressive bounty located in Central America in 1983 - that collectors will have little difficulty obtaining a coin in the MS-60 to MS-64 range. This issue remains a median rarity for the type in the finest Mint State grades, however, and it is rarer as a Gem than such other Saint-Gaudens twenties as the 1909-S, 1911-S, 1913-D, 1923 and even the vaunted MCMVII (1907) High Relief.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the January 2013 Americana Auction, where it realized $108,687.