Gold - American Eagle

The Gold American Eagle is the United States Mint's flagship 22-carat gold bullion coin family, first issued in 1986. Each one-ounce bullion coin contains a full troy ounce of fine gold, with additional silver and copper alloy used to create a durable 22-carat specification suited to handling and long-term storage. The series is recognised internationally for combining trusted United States Mint production with some of the most familiar imagery in American coinage. The obverse is based on Augustus Saint-Gaudens' celebrated Liberty design, originally created for the early twentieth-century Double Eagle. The reverse used Miley Busiek's family-of-eagles design from 1986 until the 2021 transition, when Jennie Norris' close-up eagle portrait introduced the modern Type 2 era. This long design history gives the Gold American Eagle strong appeal to both bullion investors and date-run collectors.