2021 $50 Gold Buffalo
~$5,000
1 oz .9999 fine gold · ungraded as struck
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2021 $50 Gold Buffalo
Did you know
Congress passed a law telling the Mint exactly which old artwork to copy: the buffalo nickel of 1913. It was the Mint's first coin of 99.99% pure gold.
What's on it
Front: the profile of a Native American man. Back: an American bison, the big shaggy animal most people call a buffalo.
When it was made
First made in 2006, but the art is far older. James Earle Fraser drew it for a five-cent coin in 1913, the year Ford's moving assembly line started.
The Philadelphia mint
America's first mint, opened 1792. Its coins carried no letter at all until a P appeared on wartime nickels in 1942.
- Struck
- 2021 · Philadelphia mint
- Metal
- 1.0 troy oz gold
- Melt
- $4,347.50 at $4,347.50/oz · 2026-09-21
- Grade
- BU · Brilliant Uncirculated
- Size
- 32.7mm across · 2.95mm thick
- Premium over metal
- +15%
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Valued 2026-09-21 · silver $66.19/oz · gold $4,347.50/oz
Good-faith estimate at spot, not a formal appraisal.