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Bicentennial Gold Medal American Coin Company

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 Posted 05/03/2013  8:11 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add john517 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I picked this up today and was wondering if anyone can give me a little information about these medals.

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 Posted 05/03/2013  8:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jack jeckel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My guess would be it is not really solid gold.

Any company going through the effort to mint a gold coin would have come up with a better design and hired a better engraver to do the dies.
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 Posted 05/03/2013  8:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add allranger to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, it doesn't look like the on of the Bicentennial Commissions medals. How big is it?
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 Posted 05/03/2013  9:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add john517 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
it is about 18-19mm and weighs 1.6 grams and I know 100% for sure that this coin is gold.
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Definitely not a US Mint piece!

A quick search revealed one of these crudely struck medals sold at auction on 31 October 2011 for $35 (there were five bidders). Gold at the time was $1,720 per ounce.

It is 10K gold (not 24K) so calling it solid gold is a bit of a fib - it is only 41.7% gold by weight. The medal was issued by American Coin Company out of California during the bicentennial year.

A 10K gold medal weighing 1.6 grams at today's gold spot close of $1,470.70 per ounce has a precious metal content value of $31.66.



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I would barely call it professionally minted but still a decent buy at the price I picked it up for. Thank you commems everything I wanted to know about it you posted for me.
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