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Melt value, today
Quarter Eagle ($2.50 Gold)
$525.79
0.12094 oz gold × $4,347.50/oz gold spot
SPOT $4,347.50/oz gold · 2026-09-21
A $2.50 gold piece (Quarter Eagle) holds 0.12094 oz of gold: the smallest common US gold denomination.
Melt is the floor: what the metal alone is worth today. A coin's collector value can be higher (date, mint mark, condition). It is rarely lower.
Melt
$525.79
2026-09-21
Common-date retail
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A dealer's buy price sits under both melt and retail on purpose — that spread is the margin that keeps the doors open. Ours is listed openly instead.
What makes one worth more than melt
- 1911-D is the recognized key of the Indian Head $2.50 series (the weak D mint mark is also heavily faked, worth a careful look before trusting one).
- The Liberty Head $2.50 series has several genuinely scarce dates. This is a collector coin more than a melt sort.
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Related series
Indian Head Half Eagle ($5 Gold)Liberty Half Eagle ($5 Gold)Indian Head Gold Eagle ($10 Gold)Liberty Gold Eagle ($10 Gold)
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