Collecting Golden Dollars

My interest is in the small real gold Dollars,- their market prices are reasonable at their relatively low mintage numbers. The added bonus is their guaranteed actual gold value, with not a lot outlay, relative to a double eagle.

Nevertheless with modern 'gold' dollars,
I would still search my pocket change and keep anything that happens to be interesting, that may have some extra premium value over face, for whatever reason. The advantages of this strategy is that all modern 'gold' dollars that you keep are acquired at the low cost of face value. The bonus in this case is that there are lots of interesting types/designs.

Which ones to you keep from pocket change?
- Any that have a premium over face value, for whatever reason.

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I used to get them at the post office when I used to buy stamps and they used to have a stamp machine that took $20 bills. It was like a mini-jackpot of baby dollars!

I have not bought stamps in years and the cash machine was replaced with one that only takes electronic payment before that.

Now I just buy them in sets from the mint every year.

If you have a friendly bank, and an account.

Well, my oldest golden dollars are now 21 years old and they look just as they did the day I got them.

They turn ugly fast in circulation (all that touching and rubbing), but seem to hold up well when stored in a stable environment.

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I collect mainly American Innovation Dollars and like others keep Sacs and Native American dollars that are in AU or, if possible, MS just released into the wild. I rarely collect Presidential dollars - I just get them when I buy old Mint or Proof sets or the Annual Uncirculated Dollar sets the US Mint used to sell on and off from 2007 - 2016. And SBAs only if I get it from a mint set (one exception the 1981 SBAs which are available only in Proof and Mint sets, my parents bought 5 or 6 mint sets which I found the best of the P,D and S). But to reiterate mainly the American Innovation Dollar.

And like another poster, when I can afford it, I get the real gold dollar coins which were produced from about 1849 to 1889. Interesting series, good premium, and there are many years that are reasonable for the mintage you get (or conditional mintage as many produced in the millions were melted for the Civil War and during the Reconstruction period mintages were very low at times). TO start, try those from 1849 - 1854 (Type I) from the Philly mint. Most affordable ones. Those from Charlotte and Dahlonega mint, due to the tiny mintages and low survival rate, are expensive. Worth getting one if you are disciplined enough to save for some time.

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I used to collect coins as a child and got reinterested when the Statehood Quarters came out

Over the years I upgraded my complete collection to Silver Proof coins (90% Silver) and just ordered the CAPS album system for them



Now I am interested in the "newer" dollar coins (SACs Presidents NA and the AI), but I have a few questions

Did they ever mint them in 90% silver?

I can find uncirculated proof (S) Presidential sets on ebay, is it worth it to buy them for 2-3 per coin?

Some of the complete Presidential sets have 39 coins with a 3 coin holder for the last set and others have 40 coins all in 4 coin holders, why is that?

What's the deal with the Native Americans set?

Thanks

Now to read the other topics on this forum until I pass out