xtrain wrote:
I'm the resident coin expert, but needed to see the answer choices before remembering the 1793 chain cent was the first official issue of the US Mint. Silver and gold coins didn't come along until the following year, thanks to the prohibitively high $10,000 bonds initially imposed on the first mint officers. (A 1794 small eagle dollar could buy you a nice sports car or even a house today)
There were no U.S. gold coins minted by the federal government until 1849. The first coin, the cent, was in 1793, and the following year the first silver dollar.
XT
1849 is the year the first gold dollar and double eagle were minted, but my Red Book shows the $5 and $10 were first produced in 1795, and the quarter eagle the following year (so I was wrong in implying gold coins came along in 1794)