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A collection that will enrich your life and bring you joy and bring you joy for many years to come, one that you will be proud to own and pass on to other generations!
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U.S. Rare Gold coins that have been authenticated, graded, and certified by one of the three superior third-party grading services that are collector grade and in investment quality condition. We have assisted countless clients in acquiring and owning some of the finest and most valuable U.S. Rare Gold coin collections.
Whether you are a novice and just starting out on your rare coin collecting and investing journey or you are an advanced collector and investor, we invite you to begin a relationship with us in your quest to assemble the finest U.S. Gold rare coin collection you can afford.
At Minuteman Rare Coin Numismatics, we firmly believe in the importance of owning tangible hard assets. United States Rare Gold coins provide that opportunity.
They provide the benefits of owning a tangible hard asset, storing wealth, and a financial safe haven, especially during times of economic uncertainty, like we are experiencing now in 2023, while also providing growth and preservation of wealth, along with complete privacy and confidentiality.
With all the negative economic signs and global turmoil we are currently experiencing, we project significant price appreciation and growth in value in U.S. Rare Gold coins over the next 3 to 5 years.
NOW is the time to assemble a United States Rare Gold coin collection, and we will show you how. We will guide and assist you in building a diversified U.S. Rare Gold coin collection that holds historically significant, valuable, high-demand and low-supply, and potentially lucrative coins.
Tangible hard assets like United States Rare Gold coins are among the few investments investors can acquire with complete privacy and confidentiality. U.S. Rare Gold coins are highly liquid and easily transportable, and investors and collectors take physical possession of their holdings.
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The collector and investor must remember that Pre-1933 United States Gold rare coins are "static," meaning they aren't made anymore and are a finite fixed supply. The demand for collector grade and investment quality Pre-1933 U.S. Rare Gold coins far exceeds their supply.
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We want you to Imagine for a moment holding a United States gold coin in your hand that was minted as long over 150 years ago and is in a condition almost as close as the day it left the mint.
Now imagine owning that coin!
THE ALLURE OF GOLD
Gold provides none of the necessities required for human survival. Yet, Gold has always been a symbol of value throughout history and has been a cherished commodity for as long and as far back as historians can document.
The allure is no less now than it was in the mid-1800s when the prospect of discovering the precious yellow metal was responsible for the California Gold Rush and the tremendous growth the nation experienced.
Gold is the noblest of metals, the stuff of which dreams are made. United States Rare Gold coins represent America's incredible journey, heritage, and history and offer exceptional investment upside for growth in value and price appreciation.
EARLY U.S. GOLD COINS 1795-1834
Early United States Gold coinage had a unique problem.
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When the U.S. Mint began producing Gold coins for circulation in 1795, there was no significant known source of native Gold within the United States.
The Mint had to rely on an assortment of foreign Gold coins from international transactions, primarily the Spanish dollar, and bullion depositors to be coined into authorized and approved U.S. Gold coinage.
Without a reliable source of native Gold, the U.S. Mint struggled with producing Gold coinage since its beginning. More importantly, the Mint struggled with keeping Gold coins in circulation due to melting, hoarding, and exporting.
This continued for almost another 40 years. The U.S. economy and monetary system unofficially ran on a Silver standard. Silver was readily available and less expensive than Gold.
In the early 1800s, when Napolean was attempting his conquest of Europe, the European value of Gold rose above the face value of U.S. Gold coins.
A weight imbalance existed between the U.S. and European currencies, allowing bullion brokers and metal speculators to purchase U.S. Gold coins, send them overseas, and sell them for lower-priced Silver for a profit.
They would then return the Silver to the states, buy more Gold coins, and repeat the process. This practice almost depleted the Gold reserves held by the United States. Gold coins began to be hoarded and melted in large quantities.
In 1803, the practice of exploiting U.S. Gold coins for profit led President Thomas Jefferson to order the production of the $10 Gold Eagle to be stopped indefinitely.
It would be over 30 years before it would return. The mintage output of the $5 Gold Half Eagle and the $2.50 Gold Quarter Eagle became limited due to the same abuse
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An entire generation went without a circulating $10 Gold Eagle coin! All "Early Gold" coins are scarce to rare in all grades and conditions and are highly sought after and coveted by investors and collectors worldwide.
Only the most well-heeled investors and collectors tend to venture into the rare coin markets "Early Gold" coin arena.
CLASSIC HEAD GOLD COINS 1834-1839
In the late 1820s and early 1830s, the U.S. finally hit paydirt with its first significant Gold strikes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Dahlonega, Georgia.
By 1834, The melting of U.S. Gold coins in Europe had reached epic proportions. The imbalance of the Gold weight ratio between the U.S. and European currencies led to the exporting and melting of U.S. Gold coins for profit due to the higher Gold content they contained above their face value.
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The Secretary of the Treasury estimated that less than $1 million of federal Gold coins were circulating in America. That was less than the total value of all the Gold $5 Half Eagle coins struck in 1834 alone!
President Andrew Jackson pressured Congress to pass the Coinage Act of 1834. The Coinage Act authorized a new design for all gold coins. That new design was the "Classic Head," minted from 1834 to 1839. These were the first widely circulated gold coins in U.S. history.
The "Classic Head" design was short-lived, minted between 1834 and 1839.
The "Classic Head" design had limited mintages and experienced heavy circulation, creating many elusive and rare issues from this period due to their low survival rates.
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The minting of the Gold "Classic Head" design coincided with the Texas Revolution in 1835 and 1836. The coins minted during this time are historically significant and extremely valuable, especially coins in higher certified Mint State condition.
It was a time in United States history of "Remember the Alamo" and famous American heroes like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and Sam Houston.
Later, in 1834, citizens began regularly seeing significant quantities of $5 Gold Half Eagles in circulation. The Classic Head design represented a bridge between Early Gold issues minted from 1795 to 1834, and the Coronet Liberty Head design struck from 1839 to 1908.
The Gold $2.50 Classic Head Quarter Eagle and the $5 Classic Head Half Eagle are highly coveted and sought after by investors and collectors worldwide.
A basic Classic Head typeset includes eight coins, six from Philadelphia, one from Charlotte, NC, and one from Dahlonega, GA.
THE SOUTHERN BRANCH MINTS
The Coinage Act of 1834 authorized three-branch Mints in Charlotte, NC., Dahlonega, GA., and New Orleans. The three branches began operations around the same time in 1838 and produced the first gold coins that weren't minted solely from the main Mint in Philadelphia.
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Charlotte and Dahlonega were authorized to produce gold coins only. The New Orleans branch was authorized to produce both gold and silver coins.
Some of the most sought-after U.S. Rare Gold coins were struck at the three southern branch mints from 1838 to 1861. Their historical significance, low mintages, value, and rarity attract investors and collectors worldwide.
All three southern branch mints struck the $1 Gold piece, $2.50 Gold Quarter Eagle, and $5 Gold Half Eagle. The $3 Gold Princess was struck only at the Dahlonega mint in 1854.
The U.S. minted Gold coins for circulation in commerce regularly from late 1834 to 1861, and Foreign Gold coins were no longer accepted as legal currency within the United States.
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From 1836 to 1861, the U.S. had finally achieved monetary stability. Unfortunately, that stability would end with the Civil War in 1861.
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The Confederate Army seized all three southern branches in 1861, shutting down all three facilities. The Charlotte and Dahlonega branches would never reopen. The New Orleans Mint reopened after the "Reconstruction era" and began producing gold and silver coins 18 years later, in 1879, until its closing in 1909.
THE (CORONET ) LIBERTY HEAD DESIGN 1838-1907
With the end of the "Classic Head" design, 3rd Chief Mint Engraver Christian Gobrecht overhauled the designs of the Gold $5 Half Eagle and Gold $2.50 Quarter Eagle.
After a 34-year absence, he created a new design, the (Coronet) Liberty Head, to reintroduce the Gold $10 Eagle.
Gobrecht's new design depicts Miss Liberty's image wearing a coronet.
Later, this design would grace the $1 gold piece in 1849 and the $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle in 1850. The Liberty Head design would last through the early 20th century.
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The minting of Type II $10 Gold Liberty Head Eagles coincided with the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. The war was fought in Texas, New Mexico, and California.
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This war resulted from the United State's annexation of Texas in 1845, taking complete control away from Mexico.
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The Gold coins minted during this era are historically significant, scarce to rare, and extremely valuable, especially in higher Mint State condition.
THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
The discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill on the American River in California in 1848 ignited the "California Gold Rush."
The discovery saw the migration westward of tens of thousands of individuals and families. Soon large mining companies and hopeful prospectors were extracting vast quantities of Gold from the river and surrounding area.
The U.S. Congress soon approved two new Gold coin denominations, the $1 Liberty Head Gold piece, and the $20 Gold Liberty Head Double Eagle.
The country now had the smallest and largest issued Gold coins in U.S. coinage history in both denomination and size.
By 1853, Gold had become so plentiful that Silver coins became worth more melted than their face value and began to be exported in large quantities and melted for profit, much like the situation confronting gold coins two decades earlier.
EARLY 20TH CENTURY GOLD
By the early 1880s gold being mined in the 1870s from North Carolina and Georgia began to dry up, and the gold supply from California had vastly diminished.
A new Gold source was discovered at Cripple Creek, Colorado, yielding millions of dollars of the precious yellow metal. New mining operations in the West also began to produce Gold from Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and eventually the Yukon in Alaska.
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In 1900, the United States officially adopted the Gold standard. Under this system, the participating countries stored their Gold coins and bullion in central banks and exchanged paper currency or certificates to settle transactions.
After 1900, large quantities of U.S. Gold coins started making their way and began to be hoarded in European, South American, and other foreign bank vaults.
In the meantime, gold coins in the U.S. were seen less and less in day-to-day commerce, except in the Far West, where they never left the marketplace.
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Suppose you had been a typical citizen living in the East in 1900. The chances are that during a 12-month period, you would not have encountered a single gold coin.
Gold coins primarily circulated throughout the West, where Gold and Silver coins dominated the marketplace. Paper currency was deeply distrusted among the citizens of the Western states and territories.
The early 1900s saw a change in the design of the four Gold coins in circulation. Augustus Saint-Gaudens completely overhauled and transformed the (Coronet) Liberty Head design into an Indian Head motif for the $10 Gold Eagle in 1907.
He completely overhauled the Gold $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle, redesigning the coin into the famous $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle in 1907.
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In 1908, upon St. Gaudens passing, Bela Lyon Pratt was commissioned to redesign the $2.50 Liberty Quarter Eagle and the $5 Liberty Half Eagle. Pratt continued with St. Gaudens Indian Head motif and designed the $5 Indian Head Half Eagle and the $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle with a new innovative and daring "incuse design." Instead of the coin's design being raised above the coin as in the traditional coin press technique of the time, the design of the coin was sunken into the coin.
The early 20th century experienced WWI, the "roaring twenties," and the Great Depression. U.S. Gold coin production during these times was spotty.
At the end of WWI, the $2.50, $5, and $10 Gold coins saw stoppages in their output. The $20 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle was the only Gold coin that saw some consistency in yearly mintage through the 1920s.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102
As the late 1920s approached, from 1929 onward, the United State's economic situation became disastrous, leading to the "Great Depression."
In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President. By then, the country was deeply mired in a depression.
In his first 100 days in office, F.D.R. signed many Executive orders to change and shape the country's future. On April 5th, 1933, as far as gold coinage is concerned, the most significant change came when he signed Executive Order 6102.
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Order 6102 proclaimed that all U.S. Gold coins would be removed entirely from circulation and that the U.S. Treasury would no longer issue gold to produce gold coins as currency.
Any Gold being held as reserves by banks and in U.S. Treasury vaults was recalled. Furthermore, all U.S. citizens were ordered to turn in all privately held gold in all forms in exchange for federally issued paper currency.
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U.S. citizens were prohibited from holding or owning Gold coins, bullion, and Gold certificates. It was now illegal for U.S. citizens to privately own or have gold in any form exceeding $100.
Order 6102 also removed the United States from the Gold standard. Gold would no longer back U.S. federal-issued paper currency.
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As a result of Order 6102, millions of gold coins of all denominations went to the melting pot and became part of America's colossal gold reserves. Think Fort Knox.
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Unknowingly, Roosevelt's decision at the time, ultimately created the United States Rare Gold and Silver coin market as we know it today and created many great U.S. Gold coin rarities.
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An excellent example of a Gold coin rarity created by Order 6102 is the last gold coin produced for circulation by the U.S. Mint, the 1933 $10 Gold Indian Head Eagle.
The entire mintage was melted almost in its entirety before it had a chance to leave the Mint. Only a handful is estimated to have been released before the recall. Around 30 to 40 examples are known to have survived.
Today, the 1933 $10 Gold Indian Head Eagle coin is a great rarity and is listed as one of the "100 Greatest U.S. Coins."
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