Gold

The first true coin in history. Minted by King Alyattes in the kingdom of Lydia, in what is now Turk...

The standard gold coin of Imperial Rome. Worth 25 silver denarii. Augustus established the regular m...

Introduced by Constantine the Great, the solidus remained unchanged in weight and purity for nearly ...

First issued by Caliph Abd al-Malik in his coinage reform of 696 AD. Featured no images, only Qurani...

The first major European gold coin since the fall of Rome. Florence minted the fiorino with the lily...

The most successful trade coin in history, minted continuously for over 500 years. Featured the Doge...

First issued under Henry VII, the sovereign was the flagship English gold coin. Featured the monarch...

The twenty dollar gold coin, the largest denomination of regular issue US coinage. First minted duri...

The gold coin of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Featured a kneeling king holding a bow and spear. Na...

The standard gold coin of Mughal India. First issued by Sher Shah Suri and refined by Akbar. Weighed...

The gold coin of the Republic of Genoa, introduced the same year as the Florentine florin. Featured ...

The main silver and gold coin of France from the 13th century to the Revolution. Louis IX introduced...

The first English gold coin produced in quantity. Featured Edward III in a ship, possibly referencin...

Featured the Arch Michael slaying a dragon. Worth 6 shillings and 8 pence initially. The angel becam...

The famous Spanish gold coin, worth 2 escudos or 4 dollars. Minted from gold looted from the America...

The escudo was both a gold and copper coin denomination in Spain and its colonies. The gold escudo w...

The 20 franc gold coin of Napoleon Bonaparte. Featured his profile on the obverse. The Napoleon was ...

The standard gold coin of Prussia under Frederick the Great. Worth 5 talers. Featured the bust of th...

The national currency of Poland since the 16th century. Zloty means golden in Polish. Originally a g...

Named after the city of Florence, where the gold florin originated. The Hungarian forint was one of ...

Also called the krone. Replaced the gulden when Austria-Hungary adopted the gold standard. The crown...

Also called the Centenario. Commemorates 100 years of Mexican independence. Contains 1.2057 ounces o...

The official gold bullion coin of Canada. Contains one troy ounce of 99.99 percent pure gold, among ...

The first modern bullion coin, introduced in 1967. Contains exactly one troy ounce of pure gold. Fea...

The best selling gold bullion coin in the world in 1992, 1995, and 1996. Features instruments of the...

British bullion coins featuring Britannia, the female personification of Britain. The gold Britannia...

Chinas gold bullion coin, first issued in 1982. Like the silver version, features a different panda ...

The coins of the Greco Bactrian Kingdom in modern Afghanistan and Central Asia. These coins show a r...

Gold coins of the Kushan Empire, which ruled Central Asia and northern India. Featured the king stan...

The gold dinar of the Abbasid Caliphate, the dominant gold coin of the medieval Mediterranean. Featu...

The gold coins minted by the Crusader states in the Holy Land. Initially copies of Byzantine and Isl...

An oval gold coin of the Edo period. Featured the value and mint marks stamped on a thin gold plate....

A very large oval gold coin, worth 10 koban. Given as gifts to daimyo and samurai rather than used i...

Peter the Greats gold coin, modeled on the Hungarian ducat and Dutch ducat. Featured the tsars portr...

The standard gold coin of the Ottoman Empire, also called the altin. Modeled on the Venetian ducat w...

The gold louis or louis dor was introduced by Louis XIII. Featured the kings bust on the obverse. Th...

The first franc coin, a gold coin depicting King John II on horseback. Created to pay the ransom for...

A Portuguese gold coin that circulated widely in Britain and its American colonies. Worth about 27 s...

Crude hand-hammered coins produced in Spanish colonial mints from the 16th to 18th centuries. The wo...

The official gold bullion coin of the United States. Contains one troy ounce of 91.67 percent pure g...

The gold coins of the Gupta Empire, considered the Golden Age of India. Featured the emperor perform...

The largest and most impressive English gold coin of the Tudor period. Featured Henry VII seated on ...

The main silver coin of the Italian states before unification. Featured the ruling pope or duke. The...

A gold coin that replaced the solidus as the standard Byzantine gold coin. Slightly lighter than the...

The Mexican silver bullion coin, first issued in 1982. Features Winged Victory on the obverse and th...

See Mexican 50 Peso entry. The Centenario was reintroduced as a restrike from 1943 to 1972 for bulli...

The Dos Mundos or Two Worlds coin was a variant name for the 50 peso gold coin. Featured the angel o...

The Australian gold bullion coin featuring a kangaroo. The kangaroo design changes annually, making ...

The modern sovereign was reintroduced in 1817 after the Napoleonic Wars. Featured George III and Sai...

The first purely Islamic gold coin. Caliph Abd al-Malik introduced it in his coinage reform of 696. ...

The coins of King Croesus of Lydia, who introduced pure gold and silver coins replacing electrum. Th...

A generic term for the standard coin of a Greek city-state. The stater could be gold, silver, or ele...

The gold coins of the Celtic tribes of Gaul and Britain. Modeled on the gold stater of Philip II of ...

The gold coins of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Philips staters featured Apollo on the obverse ...

The coinage of Carthage blended Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian traditions. Featured the goddess Tan...

The coins of the Chola Empire of southern India. Featured the Chola tiger emblem, fish, and bow. The...

The coins of the Maratha Confederacy, which challenged Mughal power. Featured the Maratha flag and s...

The coins of the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Featured the Sikh symbol and the name of G...

A reform coinage under Sultan Abdulmejid I. The gold medjidie was worth 100 kurus or 5 piastres. Fea...

The coinage of the Papal States, featuring the reigning pope. Papal coins were minted in Rome for ov...

The coinage of Kievan Rus under Vladimir the Great and his successors. Featured the rulers portrait ...

The currency of Ethiopia since 1894. Emperor Menelik II introduced the birr after modernizing the co...

A gold coin introduced by Nikephoros II Phokas, slightly lighter and wider than the histamenon. The ...

Also called trachy, these cup shaped coins are unique to Byzantium. The reason for the cup shape is ...

Coins of the Empire of Nicaea, one of the Byzantine successor states after the Fourth Crusade. Emper...

Coins of the Kushano-Sasanian governors who ruled Bactria and parts of northern India for the Sasani...

Coins of the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin. Featured the names of the ruler and the Abbasid cal...

Coins of the Mamluk Sultanate that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. The Mamluks were slave s...

Coins of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Shia rival to the Abbasid caliphs. Fatimid gold dinars were reno...

Gold dinars of the Almoravid dynasty that ruled Morocco and Muslim Spain. The Almoravids controlled ...

Coins of the Almohad Caliphate that succeeded the Almoravids. Featured the name of the Almohad ruler...

The coins of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain. Featured the Nasrid motto There...

Coins of the Marinid dynasty that succeeded the Almohads in Morocco. The Marinids attempted to recre...

The standard gold coin of the Mughal Empire. Akbar standardized the mohur at approximately 10.9 gram...

The coinage of the Vijayanagara Empire, the last great Hindu empire of southern India. Featured Hind...

Coins minted by the British East India Company in India. The EIC received minting rights from the Mu...

Coins of the 565 princely states that coexisted with British India. Each state had its own coinage, ...

Coins of Portuguese India, covering Goa, Daman, and Diu. Portuguese coins were minted in Goa from th...

See Russian Chervonets entry. The 1923 chervonets was part of Lenins New Economic Policy, which part...

See Spanish Escudo entry. The 8 escudos gold coin was equivalent to the doubloon and was the largest...

A proposed four dollar gold coin, also called the Flowing Hair Stella. Intended for international tr...

A proposed fifty dollar gold coin pattern. Two patterns were struck at the Philadelphia mint in 1877...

A pattern dollar coin made of goloid, an alloy of silver, gold, and copper. Proposed by Dr. William ...

See US Stella entry. The Stella was proposed to approximate the Latin Monetary Union standard. At 7 ...

Commemorative coins issued for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Include...

A series of commemorative coins issued from 1892 to 1954. The first was the Columbian Exposition hal...

Modern commemorative coins resumed in 1982 with the Washington half dollar commemorating the 250th a...

A series of half ounce gold coins honoring the First Ladies of the United States. Issued alongside t...

A series of gold medals commemorating American artists, writers, and musicians. Issued from 1980 to ...

See Roman Aureus entry. The aureus was minted at 40 to the Roman pound under Augustus, weighing abou...

See Crusader Bezant entry. The term bezant was used by Western Europeans for any gold coin from Byza...

A French gold coin featuring angels, related to the English angel coin. The angelot was minted durin...

The Byzantine name for the gold solidus. The nomisma was the standard gold coin of the Byzantine Emp...

Coins minted during sieges when normal coin supplies ran out. siege money was made from silver plate...

The five dollar gold half eagle was authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792. The Turban Head half eagl...

The two and a half dollar gold coin. The 1796 quarter eagle had no stars on the obverse. The 1808 qu...

An unusual denomination minted from 1854 to 1889. Designed by James B. Longacre. Created to facilita...

See US Stella entry. The four dollar Stella was proposed to align with the Latin Monetary Union. Two...

The smallest US gold coin, only 13 millimeters in diameter for the Type 1. The gold dollar was creat...

The Swiss 20 franc gold coin featuring Vreneli, the informal name for the head of Liberty in the Swi...

A large gold commemorative coin minted by France in the 1950s and 1960s. Featured various subjects i...