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5 Dollars 'American Gold Eagle' Bullion Coinage
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2021-2025 |
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| Weight | 3.393 g |
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| Reverse description | Heraldic design featuring a close-up portrait of a bald eagle's head facing left, rendered in high relief, with the country name arcing across the upper field and the national motto E PLURIBUS UNUM below it. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST appears in the upper right field. The denomination 5 DOLLARS and the gold content specification 1/10 OZ. FINE GOLD are inscribed across the lower field, flanked by the engravers' initials RG and JN. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA E PLURIBUS UNUM IN GOD WE TRUST RG JN 5 DOLLARS * 1/10 OZ. FINE GOLD |
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The American Gold Eagle series launched in 1986 under the Gold Bullion Coin Act of that year, which also mandated that the gold content be sourced exclusively from newly mined American deposits — a requirement that remains in force. The $5 face value is a legal fiction; it satisfies constitutional requirements for official coinage while bearing no relationship to the coin's actual gold value.
The 2021 issues mark a meaningful break in the series: the reverse design was revised for the first time since 1986, and the obverse was updated to remove the date and mintmark from the portrait field. That year also saw the introduction of new edge reeding and anti-counterfeiting micro-engraving on the Type 2 coins.