The history of man can be found on his coins, my late mentor, Dutch numismatist Hans M F Schulman, used to say. And no coins display history better than those created between 1793 and 1945. I want to tell the story of one such coin – the Double Eagle $20 gold coin of 1907 – and the sculptor who created it, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). This Double Eagle – which commands about $32,000 today on eBay – is graced with a relief of Liberty in the form of a goddess with flowing hair and equally fluid drapery, moving through a sunburst toward us, a torch held high in her right hand, an olive branch in her left. President Theodore Roosevelt ...