Welcome to the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin Online Exhibit
Click on the cases in the above image to access each case.
The United States Mint offered a glimpse of what it has on the horizon when it gave the public a preview of the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. The fair was held in Baltimore from July 30 to August 3, 2008. Now the opportunity to preview the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin is open to everyone via this virtual exhibit.
The museum-like, four-phase exhibit not only showcases the final shimmering product and prototype packaging, but also tells the coin’s story—from its origins in pure 24-karat, 27.4-pound gold bars; to the obverse and reverse plaster casts used to create digital maps of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ original ultra high relief design; and finally to feasibility and progression strikes and dies. In addition to unveiling the perfected ultra high relief version of what many have called the most beautiful coin ever minted—the 1907 Double Eagle—the exhibit shows people from around the nation and world the very best the United States Mint has to offer through a modern, high-tech minting process.
The online exhibit originally appeared at www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/ultrahigh/index.cfm?action=UHRCWelcome. The virtual exhibit was launched in September 2008 and removed from the Mint’s website in March 2017.
The online display was based on the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin exhibit, which was first presented by the U.S. Mint at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money. The fair was held in Baltimore from July 30 to August 3, 2008. It then appeared at the ceremony to commemorate the public release of the 2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle gold coin at the Philadelphia Mint on February 3, 2009. The exhibit was also shown at the next World’s Fair of Money in Los Angeles from August 5 to 9, 2009. The visitors in Los Angeles were allowed “to directly experience the coin’s ultra high relief by touching an actual specimen while wearing special gloves.”