Is Indian Gold Worth Collecting?

I don't collect them
BUT
a quick look at the pricing tells me they are common (except the key) thus their cost should float with the gold spot.
Therefore if your "worth collecting" question means for investment purposes my answer would be "no".

l collect arrowheads too.

Beautiful design and coins! I have a 1925D and a 1911 weak D considering slowly putting set together myself since have the key date. Good luck and if you do make sure to post them as you go. I think would be great looking set to complete!

The thing with the Indian Half Eagle is the 1929 which for most is uncollectable, so you never will get a full set. Also, if you look at historical price of gold over the last 30 years we had a peak in 1980 and in about 2011-12. Since 2011 the price of gold has been falling and if it falls to the average price of gold over the last 30-40 years it will be selling for around $300 an ounce. I love gold coins and very much want to collect many of them. However, I think they may have a much longer way to fall since they do follow the price of bullion. Even some of the rare Saint-Gaudens are selling for not much over the bullion price at auction. The really rare gold coins such as the Saint-Gaudens that were returned to the mint in the 1930's and melted down may still be very valuable because they are freaks of nature if they survived. If you look at almost all the gold coins of he 20th Century most are uncollectable unless you have very, very deep pockets. Silver has the same problem since it peaked at almost $50 an ounce during or just before the Great Recession we just lived through. Now the price of silver is about $14.50 an ounce and if it falls to historical average prices it will fall much more over the next five to ten years. You just have to collect coins because you like or love them IMO. I have bought gold mining stock over the last few years thinking it will turn around soon. Now I am thinking it has a lot further to fall. Prices of commodities tend to revert to the mean which is the average price over many years. Now I will be all wrong if there is another economic disaster in our near future, and that is why people buy gold and silver just in case. Unfortunately, gold and silver coin prices do follow these trends to a pretty significant extent from my limited research. The best hedge against that kind of disaster may be to buy bags of small denomination junk silver and stash it some place. You might be able to buy a loaf of bread for an old dateless, dime, silver quarter or half dollar depending on how bad things would get.

Well said, terry8835.

What they say is don't try to catch a falling knife. If gold were to fall to $400 an ounce I think many, many gold mining operations would just go broke. You can look for historical charts of the price of both silver and gold for long periods of time. It does seem the average price between the boom in around 1979-80 and 2010-12 was between 300-500 an ounce. We are on the downside of a tremendous boom in which both silver and gold went to insane prices. How much farther they will fall is anyone's guess. I was watching the crazy man Cramer and he said silver has major industrial uses and industry of that kind are really hurting. He said to avoid silver. If I listened to that guy seriously I would be in a rubber room. He used to run a hedge fund so he knows gold and silver and all precious metals are a hedge. You buy them knowing you are speculating.

I wonder what kind of damage to the economy would have to happen for gold to drop back to $400 an ounce or for silver to hit ten. I do buy precious metal mining stocks by cost averaging into a Vanguard Precious Metals fund. I don't know if it is better to buy the metal or the metal mining stocks? It is easy to dollar cost average with stock funds, but not so easy with the actual metal. The thing I see is that the precious metals and the coins they make up could fall and stay down for years. That is why I say to collect coins for the love of it and don't speculate on the prices. If the price of gold and silver coins drops because of decline in the metals price then you have opportunity to buy the coins you may really want at lower prices. One thing also is that nobody rings a bell when commodity prices have reached the bottom and are starting back up again! What I have seen is that commodity prices of all sorts are so volatile that you pays your money and takes your chances. I just buy and collect coins as a hobby. Not trying to make money with my coins.

I wouldn't count on coins going to the moon. Or bullion, unless someone tries to corner it.

A year ago I liquidated my dad's royalty trusts as estate executor. It was a wake-up call to what can happen if you hang on to commodities. Decades of high yield can be wiped out in months. After seeing what happened to oil, $300 gold wouldn't surprise me.