Details of 1861 USA Double Eagle
| 1861 USA Double Eagle or $20 Gold Coin Mintage: Circulation strikes: 2,976,453 Proofs: 66. Designer: James Barton Longacre. Diameter: ±34 millimeters Metal content: Gold - 90%. Other - 10% Weight: ±516 grains (±33.4 grams). Edge: Reeded Mintmark: None (for Philadelphia) below the eagle's tail on the reverse. Satisfaction guaranteed or full refund on returns within seven days. OLC798/485 What Happened in 1861: Wild Bill Hickok was involved in a deadly shoot-out with the McCanles Gang at the Rock Creek Station, Nebraska, after 40-year-old David McCanles, his 12-year-old son (William) Monroe McCanles, and two farmhands, James Woods and James Gordon, called at the station's office to demand payment of an overdue second installment on the recently purchased property, an event that is still the subject of much debate. Hickok and his accomplices, the station manager Horace Wellman, his wife, and an employee, J.W. Brink, were tried but judged to have acted in self-defense. According to Joseph G. Rosa, a Hickok biographer, the shot that felled the elder McCanles came from inside the house. It remains unknown who actually fired it. Rosa conjectures that Wellman had far more of a motive to kill McCanles, a belief supported by McCanles' son's own account. There were also women in the house, conceivably armed with shotguns. McCanles was the first man Hickok was reputed to have killed in a fight. On several later occasions, Hickok was to confront and kill several men while fighting alone. |
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| Condition | Very Fine (VF) |
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| Price | £1,190.00 - |
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