{"id":10188,"date":"2011-10-31T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/?page_id=10188"},"modified":"2011-10-31T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:36:00","slug":"know_us_mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/know_us_mint\/","title":{"rendered":"US Mint Gold Coins &#8211; All You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US Mint Gold Coins &#8211; All You Need To Know<\/h1>\n<p>The US Mint sold 190,000 1 oz gold coins in May 2010, the highest since January 1999. In January 1999, the US Mint sold 208,500 1 oz gold coins .  Sales of American Eagle coins surged 214% in April 2010, against the backdrop of volatility in the dollar and macro-economic uncertainties in the Eurozone. The price of gold bullion reached record levels at $1.248.95\/oz in May 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Types of US Mint Gold Coins <\/p>\n<p>Broadly speaking, there are three types of US Mint gold coins:<\/p>\n<p>Liberty $20 Gold Coin: Designed by James Longacre, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/types_gold_coins.asp\">US Mint gold coins<\/a> carried a weight of 33.43 gm, and gold content of 0.9675 oz. Composed of 90% gold, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/liberty_goldcoin.asp\">Liberty $20 gold coins<\/a> are scarce and therefore in high demand by investors and collectors alike. These coins came in three types &#8211; Type I (1849-1866), Type II (1866-1876), and Type III (1877-1907). Throughout its production history, the $20 Liberty gold coins were minted at five different mints &#8211; Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver, Carson City, and New Orleans. During the era when the $20 Liberty was issued, the official price of gold was $20.67 per ounce. Gold content was fixed at 0.9675 per ounce, equaling its $20 value in gold weight.<\/p>\n<p>St. Gaudens $20 Gold Coin: Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, these US Mint gold coins weighed 33.43 gm, and carried gold content of 0.9675 oz. Composed of 90% gold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/gaudens_goldcoin.asp\">St Gaudens $20 gold coins<\/a> were the most recognized and coveted gold coins during the US Industrial Revolution in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These coins are still very much in demand. In fact, a Double Eagle was sold for more than $7.5 million at Sotheby&#8217;s, New York in 2002, making the 1933 St. Gaudens Double Eagle the most valuable coin in the world. The $20 Saint Gaudens was officially minted in the US at three different mints &#8211; Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>American Eagle Gold Bullion: The American Gold Eagle is an official gold bullion coin of the United States. Released by the US Mint in 1986, these coins come in four variations &#8211; 1\/10, 1\/4, 1\/2, and 1 oz of pure gold. American Eagle coins are authorized by the US Congress and are guaranteed for their weight and gold content by the US Treasury Department. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Mint sold 190,000 1 oz gold coins in May 2010, the highest since January 1999. In January 1999, the US Mint sold 208,500 1 oz gold coins . Sales of American Eagle coins surged 214% in April 2010, against the backdrop of volatility in the dollar and macro-economic uncertainties in the Eurozone. The price of gold bullion reached record levels at $1.248.95\/oz in May 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207],"tags":[60,63,139,169,236,798,799,800,801],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gold-bullion","tag-gold-coins","tag-archive","tag-us-mint-sold","tag-us-mint","tag-1-oz-gold-coins","tag-american-eagle-coins","tag-macro-economic","tag-volatility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}