Gold Commemoratives
Governments have long used coins as a way of recording important events. Coins are rarely destroyed and therefore act as permanent record of the occasion.
gold commemorative: U.S. coins issued in gold, in a variety of denominations, to commemorate various events or important people in American history.
gold dollar: the U.S. $1 gold coins struck from 1849-1889.
Gold commemorative - Any of the eleven gold coins struck from 1903 until 1926 to honor a person, place, or event. Also, any of the modern United States commemorative gold issues sometimes referred to as modern gold commems.
gold commemorative
Any of the eleven commemorate coins struck in gold from 1903 until 1925. Also, any of the modern United States commemorative gold issues, sometimes called modern gold commems.
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This souvenir gold commemorative is the one of the two varieties of the 1922 Grant $1 Gold Commemorative. Today nearly all known Grant gold dollars are in varying degrees of Mint State, evidence that very few were ever sold to the general public.
$5 Mint State Gold Commemoratives 1986 to Present
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$5 Proof Commemorative Gold ...
gold commem Short for gold commemorative. gold commemorative Any of the eleven commemorate coins struck in gold from 1903 until 1925. Also, any of the modern United States commemorative gold issues, sometimes called modern gold commems.
A legacy of old national practice is the minting of silver and gold commemorative coins. Unlike normal issues, these coins are not legal tender in all the Eurozone, but only in the country where the coin was issued.
West Point Mint (1984 to date): Beginning in 1984 a special minting facility at West Point, New York (home of the Military Academy), has been used to produce certain gold commemorative coins and some other issues, ...
There was a commemorative quarter in 1893, and the circulating Bicentennial Commemoratives in the quarter, half and dollar denominations in 1976. There have been a few silver dollar commemoratives as well as a few gold commemoratives of various ...
 See also: Gold, Coin, Commemorative, Gold commem, Dollar
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