gold certificate: A form of U.S. paper money once redeemable in gold coin. Temporarily made illegal for most to hold between 1933 and 1964.
Gold Certificate - A note issued by the U.S. which was at one time redeemable in gold coin for the face value. Issued between 1893 and 1922, these certificates are all still worth their face value today but can no lponger be exchanged for gold.
Gold Certificates
Gold Certificates were issued beginning in the 1860s, with early issues being of high denominations and virtually unknown today.
GOLD CERTIFICATES
$50.00, Gold Certificate, 1882, Sm. Red Seal, Napier-McClung, Fr. 1197 / KL#702, Hessler #1039, Currency Grading and Authentication, Inc. (CGA) Certificate at XF-40. This is a very scarce note.
(2) the value of gold certificates (not exceeding forty-two and two-ninths dollars a fine troy ounce) retired from the use of gold contained in such coins, ...
A 1922 hundred-dollar Gold Certificate
1869: A new $100 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing architecture on the right.
My personal favourites among all the issues of large size United States currency are the Gold Certificates.
Over 300,000 certified proofs for the printing of United States national bank notes (Figure 52), gold certificates, Treasury certificates, legal tender notes, and many other types were added to our collection.
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The only exception to this rule is the $10,000 gold certificate of Series 1900, a number of which were inadvertantly released to the public due to a fire in 1935. A box of them was literally thrown out of a window.
A series of 1934 $100,000 gold certificate. This is the highest-denomination note ever issued by the United States. These notes were only used in transactions between Federal Reserve banks up until the early 1960s.
However, while the United States was on the gold standard, it was possible to redeem them for gold indirectly by exchanging them for a currency of a different obligation, for example a Gold Certificate.
This was the date on which the American president declared that it was illegal for US citizens to own gold and ordered them to return their coins, ingots and gold certificates to the federal reserve banks before May 1st 1933 at a price of 20.
We recently found a $100 federal reserve note gold certificate in our grandfather's stuff. It's dated 1928 and it's in good condition. How would we find out how much it is worth? We are not coin collectors, so don't know where to turn ...
Also called American silver, Feuchtwanger's composition, nickel silver gold certificate A form of U.S. paper money once redeemable in gold coin. Temporarily made illegal for most to hold between 1933 and 1964.
What caught my eye was a $1000 Gold Certificate certified in a grade
of 63. It was a beautiful note. We greeted each other, and the bill
was taken out of the display case for me to see. I asked, "What's my
price?
 See also: Gold, Silver, Coin, Currency, Dollar
  
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