What is an American Gold Buffalo worth?

What a Gold Buffalo is worth today

Gold is trading at $3,942 per troy ounce (the Kitco bid). We pay 96% of that for gold bullion coins, priced when we verify your package: $3,784.70 for a 1 ozt Buffalo today.

What is an American Gold Buffalo?

The U.S. Mint has struck the Gold Buffalo since 2006. It was the Mint's first 24-karat (.9999 fine) gold coin, and its design comes from James Earle Fraser's 1913 Buffalo nickel: a Native American profile on the front and an American bison on the back.

• Size: almost all Gold Buffalos are 1 ozt. The Mint made 1/2, 1/4, and 1/10 ozt Buffalos only in 2008, in small numbers, and collectors often pay more than their gold for those; send photos if you have them.
• Proofs: proof Buffalos (mirror finish, W mint mark) hold the same gold and are priced at least on it.
• Pure gold is soft: Buffalos scratch and dent more easily than 22-karat Eagles. Keep them in capsules and don't clean them.

Buffalo silver rounds are different

Many private mints sell 1 ozt silver rounds with the Buffalo design. They aren't U.S. Mint coins and have no face value. We buy them as generic .999 silver rounds, at 90% of the silver price: $45.09 per 1 ozt round today. A Buffalo nickel, meanwhile, contains no silver.

Check these before you sell

Keep Buffalos in their tubes, capsules, or Mint boxes. We verify every coin on arrival and pay on what we find. For other gold coins, see how to sell gold coins.

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We pay top dollar for gold, at published rates set before you sell.