A rare gold coin from 1879 is coming to auction.

[tamrock]

There Is a $4 U.S. Coin, and It’s Now Worth $60,000

In 1879, America's minister plenipotentiary to Austria, John Adam Kasson, successfully persuaded the Philadelphia Mint that the U.S. needed a four-dollar coin. The exact logic of the argument has been lost to time, though its thrust was that America needed a coin that would work as a form of international currency, and a gold coin that (roughly) measured the same weight as a French napoleon or a British sovereign would do the trick.

There Is a $4 U.S. Coin, and It?s Now Worth $60,000 - Bloomberg

 

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[kingskid1611]

I would love to add one to my growing coin collection but I think I will be outbid. Unless we all pitch in and have a collective bid......

 

[tamrock]

I would love to add one to my growing coin collection but I think I will be outbid. Unless we all pitch in and have a collective bid......

That be nice to own and I can only guess what it be worth 20 years from now?. Maybe someone will get lucky with a metal detector and find one? This one looks like it's in fairly circulated condition, so some defiantly got passed around and maybe even lost I'm thinking.

 

[kcm]

hmm...looks just like the weird coin I threw in the reject pile last month.

It's hard for me to imagine a coin of such value. The only silver I've found so far is a dime! No war nickels, no silver quarters, no rare cents.