Quarter Pound Fine Silver "Golden Eagle" Round

http://the-gold-market.blogspot.com This is a big silver round produced privately by the Washington Mint. It's a quarter pound, or 4 troy ounces, of silver (before I bought it I checked if it was 3 or 4 ounces, because troy pounds and standard pounds are different -- this is one quarter of a standard pound, and contains 4 ounces of silver). It is "layered" with 24 karat gold (I think layered is somewhat less commital than saying "plated" this layering is pretty thin). It's a replica of the American Double Eagle $20 coin that was minted until 1933. The same design is currently used on the officially minted high relief double eagle coins released in 2009.

People who sell these "golden eagles" may try to pass them off as officially minted giant American Eagle silver proofs or giant Double Eagle proofs, but they are not. Such coins don't exist. You can easily tell this Golden Eagle by its size (it takes up the whole palm of your hand and more), and by its lack of a face value, amongst other differences.

But it's 4 oz of silver bullion, and it's a replica not a fake. So it's still a good buy as far as silver goes. I got it for a very low premium over spot so I'm happy with it.

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[MzProgressive]

I would never buy "plated" (or colored) silver coins. Hard to "melt down" a mixed metal round.

Nice conversation piece though.

[goldmarketprice]

I'm not worried about that too much. The plating is so thin that you could just scrape it off. I'm sure there are acidic solutions that can take off the plating.

[silvermediastudio]

@goldmarketprice Scrape it off? Dude, it's microns thick hahah you're not scraping it off. You'd have to separate it with mercury, which is caustic and harmful. You don't even know if there's a silver core haha.

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[th3iceman7898]

I have 6 of these, i was wondering how much i could get for selling them?

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[spiff2003]

They call them double eagles because there first eagle design was a 10 dollar denomination. this coin is a replica of the20 dollar gold eagle design better known as the "double eagle".. BTW no offence but iwould never ever waste my hard earned money on a replica such as this.. Solid silver or not they are still difficult to liquidate..

[Roguegalt1]

Why is it called ' double eagle' when there is only one eagle being shown? Riddle me that.

[etraise]

ghetto as fuck

[joffeloff]

I didn't know that was allowed.

Do they make non-plated silver 1oz 'double eagles'?

[42base13]

How many grams does that thing weigh? I'm wondering if it's 1/4 troy pound or 1/4 avoirdupois pound.