| While the American Eagle coins are primarily | | | | involved in American Eagle coins investing without |
| valued for their gold content, it's worth looking at | | | | also becoming something of an art connoisseur. |
| their artistic content as well. They were selected | | | | You can of course American Eagle coins only for |
| as the US Mint's primary coinage to offer | | | | your investments and completely ignore the |
| investors looking to purchase gold bullion coins | | | | imagery on the obverse and reverse sides, but |
| almost entirely based on its aesthetic qualities. | | | | inspecting that artwork is in fact a big part of |
| The coin's design was created by Augustus Saint | | | | identifying coins as authentic and you can't identify |
| Gaudens, who was considered to be amongst the | | | | the coin as authentic without some degree of |
| most important and influential western artists, if | | | | knowledge regarding the art itself. Likewise, this |
| not perhaps the most influential American artist in | | | | goes for knowing the history behind the coins you |
| history. To look at the history of art in America | | | | collect. |
| you will see a distinct change between art created | | | | Of course, as wonderful as all this art and history |
| prior to St. Gaudens' career and the artwork | | | | is the fact remains that the main draw of the |
| created afterward. St. Gaudens placed importance | | | | coins is of course the fact that they're just a |
| on realism, while at the same time allowing for | | | | smart investment, plain and simple. Mainly that |
| these realistic sketches, sculptures and paintings | | | | they allow the investor to buy and sell their |
| to also portray an idealized sense of realism. Prior | | | | metals in smaller increments. In that you can |
| to St. Gaudens, American art tended to follow | | | | obtain these coins in any size from a tenth of an |
| along the same lines as much European art of the | | | | ounce to a full ounce, you needn't move |
| time, which had been illustrative and with a sense | | | | thousands of dollars worth of gold around every |
| of clarity but with very little in the way of either | | | | time you want to dip into your gold investment |
| realism or aesthetic ambition. | | | | for some cash on a rainy day, nor do you need |
| While the Canadian and South African coins are | | | | to spend thousands whenever you want to add a |
| quite valuable, worth their own respective metal | | | | little more to your investment. You can simply put |
| contents, the American Eagle coins are prized not | | | | a few hundred dollars at a time into you account |
| only as investor's items but as works of art. | | | | when convenient and allow the money to grow. |
| It could even be said that you cannot become | | | | |