1 Utah Goldback Gold Note (2026 Alpha)

1 Utah Goldback Gold Note (2026 Alpha) — 1/1,000 troy oz · 99.9% pure 24k gold

The anchor note of Utah's redesigned 2026 series, and the note most people buy first.

Each note holds exactly 1/1,000 of a troy ounce of 24k gold, physically embedded through a patented vacuum deposition process that took over 20 years to develop. You are not buying a certificate or a fund. This is gold you can hold, spend at 2,000+ merchants, or save.

Like all small-denomination physical gold, Goldbacks carry a premium over raw spot price. That premium pays for the precision manufacturing that makes spendable fractional gold possible at this scale, and no one else has mastered the process. It also reflects real utility: this gold circulates rather than sitting in a vault.

The refreshed 1 Utah Goldback carries the virtue Prudentia, prudence, personified as a Ute woman in a traditional deerskin dress. Goldback designed her beadwork, jewelry, moccasins and attire from historical photographs and period references. The Ute people are the longest continuously living Indigenous inhabitants of present-day Utah. Prudentia sits on Utah's red rocks near Delicate Arch with a mountain lion beside her, and a bristlecone pine carried over from the original Utah 1 design stands behind her. Under UV light a hidden wolf howls beneath the moon. The enduring principle reads "Wisdom gives life to those who have it."

This is the 2026 Alpha edition, the first print run of Utah's fully redesigned series, with its own artwork and SKU.

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