5 Dollars (Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games)

The 2002 Salt Lake Olympic $5 Gold Coin

In 2002, the United States struck a gold coin for an Olympics that had nearly been swallowed by scandal. The face is pure 2002 — sharp, crystalline, modern — and fewer than 11,000 collectors ever bought the uncirculated version. It is one of the smallest gold commemorative mintages of the modern era.