1880 $100 Silver Certificate Ingot

Issued by the U.S. Treasury beginning in 1878, silver certificates were a paper currency which could be exchanged for an equivalent amount of silver dollar coins. Issued in a wide variety of denominations - from $1 to $1,000 - the high denomination $100 Silver Certificate was not valued as a collectible until sometime in the '50s. Prior to that, its face value was greater than its worth as a collectible, thus it was not often saved. Today, an 1880 $100 Silver Certificate is extremely rare and very valuable. Specimens in "Like New" condition can sell for as much as $20,000!