The Select Four Portfolio Record

Our Select Four Gold recommendations focus on four major coin areas we believe are most likely to see ongoing collector and dealer demand and potential future price increases. We have selected some of the choicest, sight-seen historically important coins available for our clients over the past 25 years. Many Select Four Gold recommendations have experienced dramatic price increases, underscoring the ongoing demand for our coin recommendations.

Liberty Double Eagles

The Type II and Type III Liberty Double Eagles are among the most popular, and in some select cases some of the rarest, of all United States gold coins. The Type II $20 Liberty Double Eagles (1866-1876) have the distinction of being the first United States $20 gold coins to bear the motto: “In God We Trust.” About 95% of the originally issued Type II Liberty Double Eagles have been melted down. Certified Type II $20 Liberty Double Eagles are many times rarer than Type III Liberty Double Eagles in certified population reports. Additionally, Type II $20 Liberty Double Eagles are substantially rarer than the popular $20 Saint-Gaudens in certified mint state condition. In 1877, a minor design change to the reverse’s dollar denomination being spelled out resulted in the Type III Liberty Double Eagles (1877-1907) being created. Among all Type II and Type III Double Eagles, some of the rarest are the ones minted at the Carson City Mint. In recent years, the heavily marketed release of the Type I Double Eagle hoard of coins recovered from the shipwrecked S.S. Central America stimulated awareness and demand for some of the comparatively rarer Type II and Type III Double Eagles,  which helped send prices for many coins trending higher. Additionally, tens of thousands of Dr. Mike Fuljenz’s books on Type II and Type III Double Eagles, both of which received “Investment Book of the Year” awards from the Numismatic Literary Guild, have been placed directly in the hands of dealers and collectors, expanding the collector base and further galvanizing demand. Be sure to ask your representative how you can get a copy of Dr. Mike Fuljenz’s award-winning books on $20 Liberty Gold Eagles. More recently, Dr. Mike Fuljenz has begun recommending more of the rarest and most coveted Liberty Gold Eagles. Those included select one-dollar, five-dollar and $10 gold eagles from the historic Carson City, Charlotte and Dahlonega mints.

Indian Head Gold Coins

The second area in our Select Four is comprised of four Indian Head gold coins minted periodically from 1854-1933. The coins recommended in this area are the $3 Indian Princess, the $10 Indian Eagle, the $5 Indian Half Eagle and the $2.50 Indian Quarter Eagle. The Indian Quarter and Half Eagles were the only two of the four to feature the same design. Within the scope of United States coin collecting, especially in higher grade conditions, the $3 Indian Princess and the $5 Indian Eagle are considered “stopper” coins among collectors to complete the popular 12-piece gold type set. Because of their relative rarity, the absence of these coins potentially can “stop” a collector from completing a collection. The Indian Quarter and Half Eagle coins are the only ones in United States history to feature “incuse” devices (sunken rather than raised) on the coin’s design, which has made these coins consistently popular among collectors.

Rare Gold Commemoratives & Special Market Opportunities

In 2005, for the first time in our history, we expanded our top coin recommendations to include two rare and unique gold commemoratives: the 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition Quarter Eagle and the 1926 Sesquicentennial Independence Quarter Eagle. While they commemorate distinctly different events in U.S. history, they are the only two gold commemorative Quarter Eagles in U.S. history. By overall mintage and surviving population, these are two of the rarest coins we have ever recommended. From time to time, certain coins become available that are too good to not recommend to our clients.  Notifying our clients early about these rare market opportunities sets us apart from other companies.

$25 & $10 American Gold Eagles

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt suspended all United States gold coin production. In 1986, more than fifty years later, President Ronald Reagan authorized the United States Mint to once again begin producing non-commemorative legal tender gold coins and the American Gold Eagle family of coins was born. As the first $25 gold coin ever minted in United States history, the $25 Gold Eagle is a cornerstone coin among Select Four recommendations. Virtually every single year since they were first minted, the U.S. Mint has typically minted fewer $25 and $10 Gold Eagles than the other gold coins in the series. As a result, certain dates of these Gold Eagles have already distinguished themselves among collectors as “modern-day rarities”.

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