Highly Pleasing 1907 Wire Rim High Relief $20 Saint Gaudens - PCGS MS62 8 Reales KM# 245a Denomination Skilling Country

KM# 245a Denomination Skilling Country Norway Government Kingdom Ruler Christian VII Coinage Type Standard Coinage Mint Kongsberg Composition Copper Description Obverse Crowned double C7 monogram Description Reverse Value

chain of leaves surrounds Legend Obverse VICTORIA DEI GRATIA REGINA

KM# 761 Denomination Shilling Country Great Britain Government Kingdom (Resumed) Ruler Victoria Coinage Type Pre-decimal Coinage Composition Silver Fineness 0

but a strong green ink smear on the back

" This is probably the nicest specimen I have come across

Highly Pleasing 1907 Wire Rim High Relief $20 Saint Gaudens - PCGS MS62 8 Reales KM# 245a Denomination Skilling CountryThe December 1907 issue of The Numismatist addressed protests in the newspapers concerning the removal of "In God We Trust" from the new High Relief twenty dollar gold pieces designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens. The author disagreed with the protests, arguing that the motto was introduced at a time of great national crisis and was inappropriate during peacetime. The coins are "distinctly Rooseveltian" in character, for both their impressive High Relief