By Doug Winter – Raregoldcoins.com

In the last five years, early United States gold has been one of the most active areas in the coin market. In this article, we will examine each of the major types of pre-1834 gold coinage and see how the market has performed. In addition, we will look at some future trends and make some predictions which may be of interest to the specialist.

Early coinage has always been a popular area with collectors but all pre-1834 gold types have been just about the most avidly collected area of the coin market since the beginning of the current bull market. I think this is attributable to a number of factors including the following:

In 2000, the oldest early gold coins became three centuries old which added a sense of age that was very impressive in comparison to more modern issues….

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2007 has been a transitional year in the coin market in terms of the focus of activity and changing values. Some values that had risen too high have since fallen, adjusting earlier gains. Many other values have continued to rise. Such mixed activity is normal in a bull market, especially in a market that has lasted as long as this one. In historical terms, this is a lengthy bull market, having started in 2003. Most of the past cycles lasted just two to three years before running out of momentum.

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I am just back from the annual paper money show in Memphis. It is the premier paper money event each year and experiences there tend to inform my editorial decisions in the following months. If you are a veteran of the coin market from the mid 1980s, what is currently going on in the paper money field will be familiar to you. Slabbing is affecting the business in a big way. Third-party authenticators and graders are slugging it out for market share.

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