These coins are called Sacajawea dollars because they depict the Native American woman by that name who guided part of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Remember, the coins aren't really gold, just brass.
It is not George Washington. He is on the US 1-dollar cotton bill.
The U.S. half dollar has never been made of gold. What you probably have is a gold-plated 1979 half-dollar. It's not really worth much above face value.
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Just like modern US $1 coins, modern Canadian dollars are made of a gold-colored base metal, not real gold. Your coin is an ordinary circulation coin worth face value only, about US$0.98 as of late 2010.
The value of the US dollar is not based on gold. However at today's gold prices, one dollar will buy about 0.011 pennyweights of gold.
The US did not make a gold dollar in 1894. They stopped production of the gold $1 coin in 1889.
Sorry NO 1924 gold US dollar coins.
If you mean a US one dollar Sacagawea coin, only proof and collectors coins sold from the Mint have more than face value. Remember, the coins are made of brass, not gold.
There was no fifty dollar US gold coin produced in 1940.
The US has never made a gold half dollar.
If you are talking about the coins with presidents on the face and the statue of liberty on the back, they are not made out of gold they are made out of brass. If you are talking about the old 1 dollar coins from the 1800s, they were made out of gold because of the gold rushes and the US government was looking to expand the use of gold in its coins.
In the US there are no gold dollar bills.