Very interesting stuff! So I’m guessing people could even turn in gold bars/ingots/rounds and have it converted into gold & silver coinage as...
I guess that explains why most $2.50 gold quarter eagles I’ve seen have been in MS condition or high AU at worse. If I recall correctly I believe...
Do you happen to know how much underweight they had to be in order to be worth less than face? Did it have to be deliberate content removal or...
So you’re saying if I went abroad to the UK with say 5x $20 Double Eagles in the 1890s I would be able to convert it into British Gold Sovereigns...
Hey guys I pulled out a box of my silver bullion that I’ve had in my safe since 2015 and sadly I noticed that a lot of the 1oz silver bullion...
Thanks for the info! :) I guess like you say gold coins were mostly used for large purchases due to the value of the coin and the difficulty for...
Makes sense to me. I just like looking at my coins and wondering A). What they were used to purchase and B). What I could have purchased with them...
So you think there is some fault on Grant but less than on Fisk and Gould? I kinda feel like Grant was manipulated and did the right thing once...
Wasn’t Grant the President who sold huge amounts of gold from the treasury to lower the price of gold after finding out that Fisk and Gould were...
That’s what I thought at first so I added “or a mix”. Like if I wanted say $3 of cheese, $2 of bacon, $2 of flour, $2 of vegetables, $1 of fruit,...
Im just saying I think it’s sad they’re being melted down because no one wants them. Treated like bullion.
No he didn’t. He mentioned that sales taxes will take place in October but at the time they had not taken place yet so it doesn’t explain why...
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Has anyone seen the YouTube video by coin dealer CoinHelpU? He was at a coin show and one guy had a stack of $5, $10 and $20 gold coins from...
I thought back then the dollar was pegged at $20.67/troy oz of gold? So wouldn’t that be more like the AGE today having a face value of like $1,800?
Very fascinating! Thanks for your input. :) So if I had a $10 Gold Eagle for example and as you said cheese was $0.10/lb does that mean I could...
What about Morgan Dollars? What if someone had thousands of Morgan Dollars could they make a $1,000 purchase with 1000 Morgan Dollars? Or did...
If I recall correctly the US did ALOT of trade with China and had to make silver Trade Dollars because the Chinese didn’t want gold only silver.
Thats true. I guess I always imagined a mixture. Like if it was $60 maybe 2x $20 Double Eagles (very large purchases), 1x $10 Eagle (large...
So you get what I’m saying then. I should’ve phrased it better from the beginning. I should’ve said that I was referring to gold coins as...
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