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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 39516, member: 1735&quot;]This concept dollar was the creation of Ron Landis at the Gallery Mint.&nbsp; He carved the dies and main devices for the piece and struck several dozen to pass around congress so they could see what a gold colored coin could look like.&nbsp; The originals were struck on regular thickness planchets and were dated 1995.&nbsp; These pieces are highly sought after by collectors and rarely appear for sale.&nbsp; Soon after these were made, there was a movement to put the Statue of Liberty on the new gold dollar, so Ron Landis created a SOL obverse and paired it with the same reverse.&nbsp; When collectors deluged the GMM wanting copies of these concept dollars, they made a new obverse die dated 2000 and struck 2500 of each kind, Liberty Head and SOL, on extra thick piedfort planchets.&nbsp; They were offered at $25 each and sold out in a few weeks.&nbsp; Both these designs were offered as possible designs for the new gold dollar, but in the end, it was decided that Sacajawea should grace the obverse so his obverse designs were not considered.&nbsp; However, the reverse design was one of the quarter finalists in the running for the new gold dollar.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t make it, but these coins are now considered by most numismatists as private mint pattern issues and they sell quickly when offered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the picture used in this thread was a picture I took of my piece a few years ago and is used on the Small Dollars web site, and anywhere else anyone wants to use it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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