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- Exquisite collector's item: The American Buffalo 2021 impresses with the finest minting quality and is a must for every gold coin collection
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American Buffalo 2021
1 ounce of fine gold
American Buffalo 2021, bison side with the American bison
An American bison and the portrait of a Native American, after the designs James Earle Fraser created for the US five-cent piece of 1913. Issued by the United States Mint.
Fraser’s choice
Two images for one country.
James Earle Fraser was born in 1876 in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up on the prairie near Mitchell, South Dakota. He studied in Paris and under Augustus Saint-Gaudens, then opened his own studio in New York.
In 1913 his five-cent piece went into circulation, the “Buffalo Nickel”. On one side he placed the portrait of a Native American, on the other an American bison. According to the Smithsonian, Fraser chose both as “indisputable representatives of the nation”.
According to the United States Mint, the nickel was thus one of the first to depart from the customary eagle or wreath. It was struck until 1938.
Several Native Americans sat for the portrait.
“My purpose was not to make a portrait but a type.”
Since 2006 a gold coin has borne both images as well: the American Buffalo.
The bison
From a few dozen animals, herds grew again.
Before the mid-19th century, perhaps 30 to 60 million bison roamed North America, most of them on the Great Plains. By the 1890s there were fewer than 1,000.
Yellowstone is the only place in the US where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. In 1902 the herd there still numbered about two dozen animals. In the same year, 21 bison from two private herds were added. From both groups grew the two large herds that live in the national park today.
Since 9 May 2016, the bison has been the national mammal of the USA by law.
In gold since 2006
Fraser’s images in 24 karat.
The American Buffalo coins are “the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coins ever struck by the United States Mint”. Some of the first were struck at West Point in June 2006.
It rests on a law of 2005. The law requires one ounce in weight and 99.99 percent gold, and for the first year of issue it prescribed Fraser’s original design, the “1913 Type 1”. The coin is issued as legal tender with a face value of 50 dollars.
Value, weight and fineness are incused in the grassy mound beneath the bison: “$50” and “1 OZ. .9999 FINE GOLD”. On the portrait side are “LIBERTY”, the year and below it Fraser’s initial “F”.
PortraitThe portrait, beside it “LIBERTY”
Year and F“2021”, below it Fraser’s “F”
BisonThe bison on its grassy mound
InscriptionValue and fineness in the grassy mound
Details from the photos in our gallery.
The editions
Fraser’s bison in three metals.
Gold, silver and copper to the scale of their diameters. Your edition is marked.
Editions we can deliver are linked.
Gold32.7 mm
Silver39 mm
Copper39 mm
At a glance
- Type
- Coin
- Metal
- Gold
- Design
- by James Earle Fraser, 1913
- Weight
- 1 ounce of fine gold
- Fineness
- 999.9/1,000
- Face value
- 50 dollars
- Diameter
- 32.7 mm
- Year
- 2021
- Issuer
- United States Mint
- Quality
- Brilliant uncirculated
When James Earle Fraser died in 1953, three of his important works remained unfinished.
1 Unze Goldmünze American Buffalo 2021
Durch das besondere Motiv und der hervoragenden Prägequalität erfreut sich der American Buffalo seit Jhren einer wachsenden Beliebtheit. Beide Seiten der Münze sind von der Gestaltung her so schön gestaltet, dass eine solche Münze in keiner Sammlung fehlen darf. Darum ist die 1 Unze American Buffalo seit Jahren auch so präsent bei Investoren und Sammlern, die Gold mit einer Feinheit von 999,9/1.000 kaufen möchten. Die hohe Qualität der Goldmünze und die Herkunft von einem bekannten Hersteller gaben der Buffalo einen Schnellstart und erhöhen die Erfolgschancen im Jahr 2020 deutlich. Damit erwarten wir auch einen steigenden Sammlerwert in den Folgejahren! Die Münzen wurden seit dem Jahrgang 2017 erstmals in Münztuben und nicht mehr in den altbekannten Einschweißungen ausgeliefert. Mit 33mm Durchmesser sind die Münzen genauso groß wie die Krügerrand oder die American Eagle Goldmünzen. Die passende Kapselgröße finden Sie HIER.
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