Introduction to Gold Coin Prices and Price-per-Ounce of Numismatic Gold Coins

Gold coin prices: Just to give you an idea of how these gold companies operate and why they sell what they do, I have prepared what I call the Price-per-Ounce Chart . This chart is a rather simple way to view at a glance gold coin prices for not only what coins these companies are trying to lure you into buying, but what is the actual cost of that particular coin per ounce.

Once you are educated to know their tricks, and you are armed with that knowledge, you will be much less apt to fall into their smooth rhetorical traps and possibly lose you entire life’s savings as many have.

For the purpose of illustration, I have chosen the most common gold coins that most gold coin companies sell. I would say that over 90% of the old gold coins that are sold in this country are listed in this chart, that is, the old United States numismatic gold coins that were minted from 1850 to 1933. Probably the biggest reason these coins are marketed so heavily, as I have mentioned before, is because numismatic gold coins are considered antiques or collector items and have some protection from a confiscation.

But here is the purpose of the chart: to show you where the big money is for the coin companies. It is in the Certified Coins. Certified or “slabbed coins,” start with Mint State 61 (MS61) and go all the way to MS70. The coins on this Price-per-Ounce Chart are often called numismatic, fractional gold coins because they contain only a fraction of an ounce of gold. And incidentally, as the chart indicates, the big, big, money is in these high Mint State, numismatic, fractional gold coins. For the purpose of the chart we will look at the contrast in price between the MS61 and the MS65.