10 world's rarest coins

You will hardly have the opportunity to admire the extremely rare coins and values ​​below because they only have a few specimens even a single specimen in the world. These coins are worth millions of dollars.

The first dollar

Not long after the Declaration of Independence, the United States Congress of Congress affirmed freedom with the first US monetary system. This first dollar layout is bizarre - often thought to be presented by President Benjamin Franklin - with the words ' fugio ' (roughly translated as 'time waiting for no one') and ' mind your bussiness ' (provisional translated as 'please note your work') and 13 nested circles representing the 13 colonies.

First, the dollar is cast in tin alloy - there are still a few dozen dongs - but silver coins are very rare.

Brasher gold coin

Prior to the adoption of the new constitution in 1789, New York, like other states, was allowed to issue separate castings.

Goldsmith Erphaim Brasher has received one of the lucrative contracts of casting bronze coins. But he made some very sophisticated gold coins. Currently, there are only 7 gold coins all over the world. In 2011, a coin with signs on the eagle's chest was sold for $ 7.4 million and located in 2014, another coin with an eagle's wing trail was sold for $ 4. , $ 5 million.

8 dollar coin

In 1834, when the Jackson administration wanted to reward foreign dignitaries, having a difficult problem was that the silver dollar had not been cast for 30 years because of counterfeit money.

Therefore, the US Government at that time was forced to issue a silver coin, $ 8 for this occasion and issue a year of 1804, the only type of coin accepted that year. Today, each of those eight dollars is worth over $ 1 million.

The dollar half of the breakaway states

In 1861, the New Orleans Foundry Department was controlled by secessionist states with the United States to cause the North-South civil war in the 1960s of the nineteenth century) but there was no reserve of precious metals.

The control of the South used money instead of coins to support the war. During this time, only a few coins and half-dollar coins of the Confederacy Alliance were secretly minted until they suddenly appeared in personal collections after the civil war.

DuPont

This famous silver coin, owned by the DuPont family, was the target of a daring burglary in 1967, which has been missing ever since and has just reappeared in recent years.

The coin has several different names, but is commonly known as the 1-dollar DuPont coin, cast in 1866 without the slogan 'In God We Trust'. According to some documents, the DuPont coin is cast according to the special request of a collector, a friend of the board members of the mint department. It is known that this collector is a pharmacist.

S coin

Especially the 3 types of coins were cast in 1870 in San Francisco. They are the thing that the world's most sought-after coin collectors - 5 cents 1870-S, 1870-S silver dollar, and 3 gold 1870-S coins (S in San Francisco abbreviations) .

There are only a few of these coins in the year when San Francisco city established a new money foundry. They are considered the foundation of this foundry.

Nickel coin

This 5-cent coin is a legend of coins. Although almost missing in 1912, 5 nickel coins with the head of the Statue of Liberty were recast in 1913 and became a man's possession.

This coin collector has spread rumors about the existence of coins with the head of the Goddess of Liberty and a very high prize for those who find it. A few years later, that collector earned great bargains from the sale of these five coin collections. In the recent change of owner, each nickel coin is worth 5 million USD. Only 5 coins of this type are circulated on the market.

Saint-Gauden coin

In the recession of 1933, President Roosevelt ordered the withdrawal of all gold coins. However, a small number of gold coins are not recovered or smuggled abroad by some violent employees - including the coin in the picture.

This coin was restored in 1992 and confiscated by the Secret Service. In 1933, the gold coin was priced at $ 20, in 2002 it sold for $ 7 million at an auction.

Coin 1943

World War II created a red copper metal crisis, the US money-making industry was no exception. Most of the war-era coins were cast in brass (iron alloy in red copper), except for a few that were cast from pirated bronze .

If you find this anomalous coin - regular brass will inhale the magnet, and the bronze will not - then you will have a huge fortune.

Aluminum coin 1974

In the early 70s of the last century, because the price of red copper rose sharply, the cost of casting a coin was even higher than its face value, so the US Department of the Money Department tried to use alternative metals.

The aluminum coin in the picture is one of the few coins sent as a model for some extremely important characters