Stopped in to get my weekly silver fix and caught gold fever instead. A closer look at the gold dollar.
Very nice! I love gold myself but it’s just insane how much it costs and then I end up getting distracted by pretty coins and buying an ancient Roman coin. XD I hope to save up some money for gold soon though. I would love to own an MS St. Gaudens Double Eagle
That's pretty! With the refund of my sales tax fees for the last couple years from eBay on coin purchases, among other things I bought, on the cheap, an NGC details AU 1876 California fractional gold .50 cent octagon (cause octagons are cool) and an NGC MS-65 Sweden 1874 Overdate "3" GOLD 10 Kronor (because it was less than $300). That gold bug you've got is catching! Achoo!
What's the Diameter on the Gold Dollar ? Aren't they the smallest coin, even smaller than the 3 Cent Silver piece ?
What I find interesting about the California fractional "currency" is that they were made by jewelers / whomever and don't match up for the current values of gold even then (small small). The one I bought was made by a Philadelphia jeweler. The Secret Service put a stop to those non-mint issues after 1880. Gold dollars came in different sizes - For Type 1, 12.7 mm. For Types 2 and 3, 14.3 mm (For Type 1, .500 inch. For types 2 and 3, .563 in). I've read that the 3 cent pieces were 14mm though I'm not 100% that those are the little silver ones.
That used to happen to me all the time. I usually called my dealer before I drove down. I think he would intentionally put gold coins in his main case while I was on the way because I couldn’t control my gold fever… The cost of gold the last year or so has tempered my fever thankfully.
Yeah….. He is a good man and is quite adept at separating me from my folding money. I wouldn’t trade him and his shop for anything in the world.
