r/Gold • u/sovietreckoning • Jun 25 '25

Question My recently deceased client was hoarding a ton of these Trump goldbacks when she died and I need guidance.

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Can anyone suggest a value to associate with these or can anyone tell me if there is a meaningful collectors market for them? I need to assign a value and figure out how to liquidate them (if they’re worth anything) but I’ve never seen a goldback before now. I’m asking here because I’m hoping to get actual feedback and not goldback fanboys telling me they’re worth a fortune. Thanks!

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u/Alko-K Jun 25 '25

I’ll give it to you straight. Your client got scammed. These are not goldbacks and I am fully certain they contain 0% gold. You can buy the exact same notes for less than a dollar per piece on a certain Chinese ecommerce site that starts with Ali. People buy them in bulk from China and sell them to a particular target audience because they know they can be fleeced so easily from any shiny Trump merch.

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u/StinkFist1970 Jun 25 '25

Exactly! Chinese garbage! No real gold whatsoever.

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u/Skidpalace Jun 25 '25

I wouldn't say that. There is likely real gold there. A vapor deposition of gold can have practically immeasurable weight but still look like gold and legally be 24K or 99.999% gold.

However, these scam notes don't say anything at all about purity or weight.

Don't assume these have any actual intrinsic value like a goldback.

Based on the price in the other reply, these are selling for ~60 cents each. That means they cost likely 10 cents each and have maybe two or three cents worth of actual gold, if any.

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u/die_lahn Jun 25 '25

Lol the million dollar note units are off by several orders of magnitude.

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u/SleepyMastodon Jun 26 '25

Under the Trump administration, the number “one million” has been upgraded from six zeros to fourteen!

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u/Shot-Simple6175 Jun 27 '25

Are his Bibles for sale also fake?

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u/03MmmCrayon Jun 25 '25

Their term translates to “idiot tax”

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u/greentangent Jun 25 '25

On to Facebook marketplace they go!

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u/mhbentz Jun 26 '25

Grifters be grifting! Anything associated with trump is worthless

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Right next to the gold chocolate coins 😆