Special Resources

This section is dedicated to special features of importance or particular interest to investors and collectors.

U.S. Financial Information

• Pending Financial Crisis? - Read quotes from various respected financial analysts and institutions about the United States' mounting deficits and their effect on the U.S. dollar.
• U.S. Government Savings Bonds - Learn all about U.S. Series I Bonds, including current rates and where you can purchase them.

Coin Facts & Features

• European Gold Franc Benefits - Learn why so many investors choose historic European gold coins for their portfolios.
• Executive Gold Confiscation Order - When Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated gold from Americans in 1933, owners of "gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins." were exempt. Read the text of the Confiscation Order here.
• Motto vs. No Motto - Learn why Teddy Roosevelt had the words "In God We Trust" removed from our nation's largest gold pieces and the controversy that ensued.
• U.S. Silver Dollar History - Read about the history of silver dollars in the United States beginning in 1792.
• U.S. Silver Half-Dollar History - From 1794 to 1964, half-dollars were composed of 89% - 90% silver. Learn about their place in American coinage history.
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Learn about one of the nation's greatest sculptors and the designer of America's most beautiful coin. Read about the life of perhaps the nation's greatest sculptor.