We buy American Gold Eagles

The United States began striking gold bullion coins in 1986 to stand against the Canadian Maple Leaf, the South African Krugerrand and the Chinese Panda. The Eagle was tied directly to the gold it contained, and it did what it was meant to do: it became the default way Americans hold physical gold.

We buy every size — one ounce, half, quarter and tenth — across all dates, in bullion and proof. Tenth-ounce pieces are the ones most often undervalued elsewhere, because their premium over melt is proportionally larger and a lazy buyer simply weighs them.

Proofs and early dates get looked at separately rather than dropped into the bullion pile. A 1995-W proof and a common recent bullion strike are not the same coin, whatever the scale says, and telling them apart is the entire job.