The coin is now part of a private collectio, and like the Canadian coin, is on loan to the Historical Society. The $7.6 million sale at auction was double the previous world record for gold coin sales. Out of court, it was settled that this particular coin could be sold, although all other versions from 1933 were the property of the U.S. In 1996, as part of a Secret Service sting at the Waldorf Astoria, a British coin dealer was arrested while trying to sell a 1933 Double Eagle which swore had formerly been King Farouk’s. One, however, which had been purchased by King Farouk of Egypt, was beyond reach, and after 1954 it disappeared.
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