The United States Mint will start accepting orders for the 230th Anniversary Flowing Hair Excessive Aid Gold Coin on November 14 at midday EST. Mintage is proscribed to 17,500 cash, with orders restricted to at least one coin per family for the primary 24 hours of gross sales. The family order restrict shall be enforced on the time the product launches on-line and utilized throughout all retail channels.
Like its silver medal counterpart launched on October 15, the 230th Anniversary Flowing Hair Excessive Aid Gold Coin pays homage to the Flowing Hair Greenback, issued on October 15, 1794, by the Federal Authorities as America’s first greenback coin. Beneath the steerage of Mint Director David Rittenhouse, Chief Engraver Robert Scot designed the primary silver greenback coin with authorities oversight of the method.
Struck on the Mint’s West Level facility, the 230th Anniversary coin options an obverse design depicting the portrait of Liberty dealing with proper and surrounded by 15 stars, representing the 15 states that had ratified the Structure by 1794. Re-sculpted by Mint Medallic Artist John P. McGraw, the design retains the “LIBERTY” inscription and contains an up to date “2024” date. The denomination is incused on the sting as, “HUNDRED CENTS ONE DOLLAR OR UNIT.”
Re-sculpted by Mint Medallic Artist Eric David Custer, the coin’s reverse design stays true to the 1794 unique, depicting a laurel wreath surrounding an eagle with unfold wings within the middle, an early predecessor of the American heraldic eagle. The inscription is “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
The gold coin is encapsulated and positioned in a classy clamshell. A basic black presentation case embellished with the USA Mint seal and an outer sleeve with a gold embossed picture of the Flowing Hair completes the packaging. A certificates of authenticity with matching imagery accompanies every coin.
Pricing for the 230th Anniversary Flowing Hair Excessive Aid Gold Coin shall be decided in line with the vary wherein it seems on the Mint’s “Pricing of Numismatic Gold, Commemorative Gold, Platinum, and Palladium Products” desk (PDF hyperlink).
As a tribute to the variety of years which have elapsed for the reason that Flowing Hair greenback coin was launched, the Mint may also public sale 230 one ounce, excessive aid, pure gold cash with a “230” privy mark on December 12, 2024. The primary coin shall be auctioned with the die in a custom-made show field. Every of the cash shall be accompanied by a certificates of authenticity hand-signed by the Honorable Ventris C. Gibson, Director of the USA Mint. Further particulars about this particular public sale shall be launched at a later date.
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