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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 219016, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;ve seen pictures of patterns for 50 dollar gold coins, but they never made it to production.&nbsp; Not for circulation anyway; the 1915 Panamerican commemorative has a face value of 50 dollars (both the round and octagonal) as do the 1 oz. american gold eagle and 1/2 oz. american platinum eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only US 100 dollar coin that actually made it to production (obviously not meant for circulation though) is the 1 oz. American Platinum Eagle.&nbsp; It has the highest denomination ever put on a US coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to your original coin, I&#039;ve never even seen a picture of a pattern of it.&nbsp; Would be interesting if anybody knew of one.&nbsp; It would be difficult to collect as patterns are rare (few made, most destroyed), highly demanded, and thus extremely expensive.&nbsp; If enough were actually produced and was in the realm of affordibility, of course I&#039;d collect them lol, but that&#039;s a lot of if&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a 100 dollar coin existed (worth about its face value; wouldn&#039;t spend platinum eagles lol) I don&#039;t think I&#039;d find much use for it, I rarely use any bills bigger than $20 unless I have to make large cash purchases.&nbsp; In fact I use my debit card more often than actual cash.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I&#039;d find it especially useful as a circulating coin, for the same reason I don&#039;t like using $100 bills; too much worrying about theft and the fact it&#039;s hard to find someone who can break it if I&#039;m not spend all of that money at once.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the series of reverse designs on the proof platinum eagles, but the 1 ounce are a bit out of my price range.&nbsp; If money were no object I&#039;d collect them certainltly.&nbsp; They&#039;ve run two series so far; the eagle over various climates in the US (1998 to 2002) and the branches of government (2006 to present; 2008 will be the last in that series).&nbsp; 1997 uses the same reverse that the uncirculated still uses, 2003 to 2005 use other eagle designs.&nbsp; Maybe I could do the 1/10 ounce some day.&nbsp; I wish they&#039;d apply the new reverse design every year concept to the gold and silver, it&#039;s a great idea and makes for fun collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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