Gold Dollar
A gold dollar coin had been proposed a few times in the 1840s, however was not at first received. Congress was at last stirred without hesitation by the expanded supply of bullion caused by the California gold surge, and in 1849 approved a gold dollar. In its initial years, silver coins were being stored or traded, and the gold dollar found a prepared place in business. Silver again coursed after Congress in 1853 required that new coins of that metal be 
made lighter, and the gold dollar turned into an irregularity in trade even before government coins vanished from flow due to the monetary disturbance caused by the American Civil War.
The preparation was laid for this entrancing coin in the Carolinas and Georgia, where the country’s first enormous gold surge occurred in the mid-1800s. That surge majorly affected United States coinage, prompting the foundation of two branch mints in the district—in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in Dahlonega, Georgia—and a sharp lift in the quantity of gold coins being made by the government.
The primary gold dollars made in the United States were secretly stamped issues delivered around 1830 by a German worker named Alt Christoph Bechtler who worked a gem retailer in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Finding that gold clean and chunks were the essential medium of trade in the zone, Bechtler ran a progression of promotions in the North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser offering to refine crude gold into coins for an ostensible charge.
Gold did not again course in a large portion of the country until 1879; once it did, the gold dollar did not recapture its place. In its last years, it was struck in little numbers, causing hypothesis by hoarders. It was additionally sought after to be mounted in gems. The normal issue gold dollar was last struck in 1889; the next year, Congress finished the arrangement.
Harmed regular date gold dollars have a tendency to be worth anyplace from dissolve an incentive to about $110 USD (starting at 2017); basic dates of higher flowed grades offer for about $200 USD while rarer coins in high evaluations can be worth up to a huge number.
The gold surge changed the substance of United States coinage, also. The huge measures of gold rising up out of California provoked Congress to approve three new sections—a gold dollar, a three-dollar gold piece and a twofold bird, or twenty-dollar gold piece—in the vicinity of 1849 and 1854. In expansive part, these were expected to help change over the heap of metal into a shape more usable by general society. Twofold hawks, obviously, represented the greater part of the coins made. In the vicinity of 1850 and 1854, more than eight million were struck.
The procedure took an alternate hand over 1853, when James Ross Snowden turned into the new chief of the Mint. Snowden concurred that the gold dollar ought to be bigger, yet as opposed to utilizing an opening to keep the weight the same, he upheld making the coin fairly more slender. He allocated Chief Engraver Longacre to make this adjustment and, in the meantime, to think of another plan.