Four American classics. One collection you can hold.

This is American Collectors Mint, with the stories behind four of the best-loved designs in American coinage. First, a quick note. Everything we sell is a collectible tribute: a privately made reproduction with a gold-tone or silver-tone finish. Not a gold or silver coin, not legal tender, and not an investment. American Collectors Mint is not affiliated with the United States Government in any way.

Now, the stories.

In 1913, the sculptor James Earle Fraser set out to make a coin that could only be American. On the front of the five-cent piece he put a Native American in profile, drawn from several men who sat for him. On the back, an American bison standing on a mound. People still call it the Buffalo nickel. In 2006, the U.S. Mint brought the design back, almost unchanged, for the first twenty-four karat gold coin it had ever issued.

Our second story starts with a president. In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt asked Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's great sculptors, to make the nation's coins more beautiful. Saint-Gaudens gave us Liberty striding forward out of the sun's rays, a torch in one hand and an olive branch in the other. She first appeared on the twenty-dollar double eagle in 1907. Saint-Gaudens died that same year, before the coins were released. Many collectors still call it the most beautiful design ever used on an American coin.

Then there is Walking Liberty. Adolph Weinman designed it for the half dollar in 1916. Liberty walks toward the rising sun, with the flag draped over her shoulders like a cape. In 1986, the design came back on the front of the American Eagle silver coin.

And finally, the Morgan dollar. George T. Morgan wanted an American face for Liberty, not a classical Greek one. So he asked a Philadelphia schoolteacher, Anna Willess Williams, to sit for him. His silver dollar was first struck in 1878, at mints from Philadelphia to Carson City, and it became a coin of the Old West. Today it is one of the most widely collected American coins.

Four artists. Four moments in American history. That is what our collection celebrates.

Each tribute recreates the front and back of one of these designs, and comes in its own protective capsule and gift box, with a specification card. Ready to display, or to give.

Start with a single tribute, or bring home all four. Choose how many you want, from one to ten, and pick a design for each. Shipping is free on five or more.

The order form is right here on this page.

Questions? Call us at (800) 280-8204, Monday to Friday.

One last reminder. Our tributes are collectible reproductions, not gold or silver coins, and not legal tender. The United States Government does not sponsor or endorse these products.

Thank you for listening.