Ive been researching this myself. So far I've found out $1.00 if YOU'RE [your] lucky. Gold plating alters coin. I've been told it can not be circulated. You're lucky if you can find someone who wants it.
More, and correctionsFirst, unless you're sure that the coin has been plated, ALL presidential dollars are gold-colored because they're struck in manganese brass.Second, even if the coin is plated there's nothing to prevent anyone from spending it. It would be almost indistinguishable from an unplated coin because as noted, they're brass.
The rest of the comments are correct. The amount of gold needed to plate a Presidential dollar is so small that it would cost more to remove it than its value as raw metal. It's effectively just a curiosity, and is still only worth face value - one buck.
if it is a Ike or Eisenhower it is a gimmick i bought the same thing it is only Worth face value and 10-15 cents worth of gold. a company would collect these coins and gold plate them and sold to non coin collectors and told them it was worth something. you actually have a damaged coin. but don't get rid of it it may be worth something one day, i keep one of those in my back pocket for good luck, but it only works if you have 2 one gold plated and one not, same year, and mint mark location. they seem to be very lucky if you ask me!
Yes. Yes.
Any plated coins are only worth their melt value. Fortunately, as of early 2010 that comes to about $14 retail, or about $10 wholesale, for a 1921 Morgan dollar.
No, they are worth no more than the metal (or face) value of the coin, the gold plating adds so little gold that it would cost more to de-plate the coin than the gold is worth. For example, a 1965 gold plated half dollar would be worth ~$4.50 in silver scrap just like a normal 1965 half dollar. A 2002 gold plated quarter would be worth just a quarter, just like a normal 2002 quarter.
It's still worth about $4.50 for the silver, a 1965 is 40% silver but the plating adds nothing to the value unless someone wants it.
Not gold and not plated. It's made of manganese brass. (And yes, it's worth something: it's worth one dollar.)
There's no such thing as a gold silver dollar. Dollar coins were made of gold (1854-1889) or silver (1794-1935) but the 2 metals were never mixed. Most likely you have a silver dollar coin that was plated. Unfortunately being plated reduces its value to that of the raw metal in it, about $10 as of 06/2009.
One hundred dollars
$1. It's been gold plated, not struck in gold.
It's still worth about $36.00 just for the silver, the gold maybe 5 cents. The plating actually killed the collectible value of the coin.
It's an ordinary 40% silver half dollar that was plated as a so-called "collectible". At $17/oz for pure silver, it contains about $3.00 worth of that metal. Even the most boneheaded government functionary wouldn't authorize a coin to be made out of hundreds of bucks worth of pure gold and then put in change at 50 cents. If there ever were a real gold half dollar it would be smaller than the diameter of a pencil eraser.
Unfortunately, only the silver is worth anything because the Gold is almost unrecoverable.
If your coin says E PLURIBUS UNUM on it, then it's not a U.S. Mint Gold Dollar. It may be a gold plated silver dollar -- in which case it is currently worth about $20 If it's something else, then it will only be worth whatever melt value it may have.