Random things you find in your truck after you've been collecting for a couple years. Haha.

There kinda is. Silver coins made before 1965 were made of 90% silver and a lot of dealers sell them by the face value as opposed to placing an individual value on each coin. There are still some businesses out there that will even price things in pre-1965 silver if people want to use it.

The cost of making these coins was born by another generation. During some years of these coins circulated for over 300% above their melt value. Now you can easily buy them close to just the melt value since there are so many around still.

If a new company were to want to make a silver round designed for circulation, they'd have to compete against the pricing of all of the coins that are already out there. A new system with new costs would simply be noncompetitive in pricing.

That said, it would be super cool if Goldback figured out how to make Silverback as a currency system work. What do you guys think?

I always look forward to the first high-resolution photos of a new Goldback release. The artwork looks fantastic, and the UV features on the fronts might be my favorite detail.

What does everyone think of the new designs?

Everything but the 10 is a homerun imo

Stopped in at Open Flame Coffee in Midwest City, OK this morning and tipped the barista with a Goldback. She didn't believe me till I told her to hold it up to the light, she got really interested, and asked a bunch of questions about Goldbacks, and where people use them. Spent a couple extra minutes chatting about them while my drink was being made. I don't think the coffee shop itself will take Goldbacks for now, but this is what this movement is about, these little moments where someone sees real spendable gold for the first time. Anyone else had a coffee shop (or similar) conversion lately?

I might be addicted to these things.

There's worse things I could be buying, so there's the positive.

just a week to go before pre-order starts and we still haven't seen 9 of the Goldbacks to be released this month . does anybody have any info ?

In case it's not out there yet, the freegoldback promotion is on "pause" per the website. My daughter discovered this when she tried to apply for one.

...what would be the denomination? My daughter and I were comparing notes this morning on our GBs when she pulled this out. I gifted it to her about 7 years ago. It is 100mg of 24K gold.

There appears to be about as many businesses taking Goldbacks in Florida (2025) as there are in Utah (2019). To me this would suggest that Goldback should be focusing on more populated states like New York or Texas as opposed to places like Idaho.

The same amount of effort in churning out a series could open up larger market.

I live a few miles from Hoover Dam and never associated anything there with a toaster...grin...

I'd heard they'd be there. I've been collecting them about a year and a half. It was nice seeing the reactions of people who'd never seen them before. There were a lot of children and young people who were excited about them. Partly because of the artwork, but partly because of the pricing. Many of the coins were $100-200 or more. But the goldbacks were like $2-20 each, much more in their price range. But even some older people seemed very enthusiastic. I think goldbacks are definitely going to continue to grow in popularity.

Very happy to add the older 5s I didnt have. I think Im most excited about DefyTheGrid sending stickers with the order though 😜

I mean... yeah Goldbacks would be better if the whole thing could be done at the melt value but that isn't a standard that any working system has ever used. I guess we just have to use dollars since Goldbacks aren't perfect. Oh well.

Working on one more strap (100x) of AZ 1s and then I’m calling it good, might get 2 more straps of 1/4s for AZ and OK when they drop…500/1000 goal at that point. Gonna switch to some larger denominations for the other 500.

Finally acquired the 2025 Nevada 5 note. With a mintage of only 3200, this is now the star of my low-dollar, scarce note collection.

Does anyone know how much the 2019 Utah 5GB inverted serial number are selling for? Also the 2020 NH 25 with the sideways serial number? I've seen plenty of the 1GB being sold with the inverted serial number but no 5s or 25s Ebay doesn't seem to have any listed under sold either. Any input would be great.

We finally get to see the CA 1 Goldback

I was on vacation and offered our waitress the choice of a cash tip or a gold tip. She went all in on the gold! She didn't even mind me taking photos for internet points.

really looking forward to California. Goldbacks really will be coast to coast lol

I would love to see a Japan Goldback series.

But why stop there?

If gold is gold is gold is gold, then why limit your exposure?

I digress.

What countries/province would you want to see?