5 California Goldback Gold Note — 1/200 troy oz · 99.9% pure 24k gold
Five times the gold of the 1 Goldback in a single note, and the largest denomination in California Phase One.
Each note holds exactly 1/200 of a troy ounce of .9999 fine 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. Goldbacks have appreciated an average of ~14.47% annually since their 2019 launch.
The 5 California Goldback carries the virtue Abundantia, the personification of abundance. She stands among the rolling vineyards of Sonoma Valley holding clusters of ripe grapes, with the California quail, the state bird, beside her. Mission San Francisco Solano rises in the distance, the last and northernmost of California's twenty-one missions. Under UV light a ladybug appears among the greenery as a symbol of good luck. The design argues that real fortune grows from patient cultivation, and the enduring principle reads "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
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