$20 Miniature St. Gaudens

First, welcome to CCF! If that is one of those TV infomercial companies then I doubt you purchased solid gold coins. I see the commercials flash on CNBC.

A google search doesn't look promising. How much did you pay per piece?

nickelguy, that is similar except mine is 24k. item number in 2001 was 14019, same company.

Hi Wes, and

Pictures of one of your coins would be very helpful. The more detailed, the better. Also, a copy of the COA would be good as well. The COA should have all the info regarding composition of the 'coin'.

NCM never made anything out of solid 24kt gold. They did however, make mini coins that were marketed as 24kt Gold, with the letters "HGE" buried somewhere in the advertising small print. HGE means "Heavy Gold Electroplate", and usually amounts to a few cents worth of gold. If you're lucky, it was Gold HGE over silver, but it's most likely over a non-precious base metal.

You're 'coins' don't need the word 'COPY' on them, as they are obvious reproductions because of size. Because they weren't produced by the actual US Mint, they will more than likely not (never) have any numismatic value, and even if it were solid gold, would only be worth bullion. With that in mind, breaking them out of the plastic won't do any harm value-wise.

EDIT: See post 2 below

Ok, I was mistaken. It seems the NCM DID in fact make solid gold Double Eagle replicas.

See this link; http://saintgaudenscoins.reidgold.com/page11.html (fourth coin down)

So on to the value of your tribute medallion.

Weight of the 10mm 24kt solid gold replica is 0.6 grams. 0.6 grams equals 1 grain. 1 grain of 24kt gold (at today, 8/7/17's gold price of $1258.50) is worth $2.62 US.

I messed up by accidentally moving the decimal (the gold calc I was using does it in grains, and I typo'd the amount). 0.6 gram equals 9.25 grains, which is $24.22, as Alpha2814 pointed out (thanks).

Going from 0.6 grams to gold price directly (without converting to grains first) gives me $24.25. I think Beefer is off by a factor of 10.

The only reason you made out at all on those is because of how much gold has gone up. The average gold price in 2001 was 271.04 so when you bought them for $20 each they had $5.22 worth of gold in them. So if they were still selling them today they would probably be asking $115 for them. For just a few dollars more you could buy a 1/10 oz gold eagle that has five times as much gold in it. (IN 2001 a 1/10 oz gold eagle would have been around $30)

many thanks to all, good info beefer518, thank you. conder101, 5 years ago they were worth twice as much. that's usually my luck, buy high sell low, better get them down to the coin dealer quick. (life ain't the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is.) question has been answered.