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Augustus Saint-Gaudens to design his official inaugural medal. Saint-Gaudens was one of America’s leading sculptors, and Roosevelt was so thrilled with the result that he also asked Saint-Gaudens to prepare new designs for $10 and $20 gold coins. Saint-Gaudens agreed, and his $20 gold coin design is often singled out as the most beautiful coin in US history. Known as the $20 Saint-Gaudens gold piece, the coin depicts a remarkable figure of Liberty in a flowing gown on the obverse and a …