Gavin's College Fund Coin Album
In 2006, the United States Mint added a second gold bullion coin to its precious metals portfolio. Authorized by the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, the American Gold Buffalo was the Mint’s first .9999 fine gold coin. Just as the American Eagle Gold coin adapted a venerated design from the Mint’s past, the American Buffalo brought back James Earle Fraser’s iconic Buffalo Nickel design. While no new program is guaranteed to succeed, the Mint had reasons to believe that the Gold Buffalo would be well received after a 2001 silver commemorative coin bearing Fraser’s work sold out of its authorized 500,000 coin mintage in just 15 days. The first American Buffalo gold coins rolled off the press on June 20, 2006, at the West Point Mint and were available for purchase on June 22. Demand for the new design was markedly higher than demand for that year’s American Gold Eagle. For the 2006-W American Buffalo Gold Proof, the Mint set a mintage limit of 250,000. The final mintage of 246,267 represents that total minus returns. As a collectible, the 2006-W American Buffalo Gold Proof has the highest mintage of any Proof issue in the series and should be considered a common date.
Bullion coin for modern gold sets. Value tracks the bullion price.
2009 MMIX Ultra High Relief $20 Gold PCGS MS-70 PL. A top-pop, high-relief, proof-like, bullion coin that reprises the high relief coin of 1907.
Comparatively rare in PL (145/11,393 as of 2026).
