Have a gold coin from United States that has a cut of $ 5, $ 10, $ 25 or $ 50, but the gold medal has no data on it. Instead has something like MCMLXXXVI. What does all this mean?
Reply:During the early years of the programme American Eagle gold coins, the u.s. Mint did not use standard coins dates. Instead, the date was given in Roman numerals. Here is a breakdown of these gold coins dates and their corresponding years in our most familiar: Arabic numerals
MCMLXXXVI-1986
MCMLXXXVII-1987
MCMLXXXVIII-1988
MCMLXXXIX-1989
MCMXC-1990
MCMXCI-1991
Since 1992, dates U.S. gold coins began appearing in normal font.
In 1907, the US Mint issued both high relief and ultra high relief double eagle gold coins, designed by the legendary sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. These coins also had Roman dates on them, that MCMVII appear as. Golden 1907 coins with Roman numerals are extremely rare.
The US Mint will issue a gold ultra high Relief Saint-Gaudens a year special double eagle (piece of gold twenty dollars) in 2009. This currency will also have the date shown in Roman numerals as MMVIII. This gold coin is an homage to the original high relief double Eagles first issue in 1907. Sides "Code" of these coins are different from American Eagles described above. Double eagle gold coins have the denomination stated as TWENTY dollars.
