One Idaho Goldback | Fides (Faith)

Goldbacks are privately issued notes used as a voluntary local currency, created by sealing a thin layer of 24-karat gold between resilient sheets of polyester film. Each piece showcases detailed artwork and contains a carefully measured fractional amount of real gold, making Goldbacks one of the few forms of gold currency intended for everyday spending today. The series first appeared in Utah and has since expanded into other states, combining the historic appeal of precious metals with a practical exchange format. The latest release introduces the Idaho Goldback, adding another denomination and continuing the tradition of state-inspired designs on each note. Now, 1 Idaho Goldback Gold Notes are available online at our site. Note Highlights: Notes arrive in individual plastic sleeves or bundles of 100 notes! Special design for the Idaho series! The allegorical figure of Fides captures the pioneering spirit! Contains 1/1000 troy oz of .9999 pure gold. A pioneer woman and her son take a break near the City of Rocks. Please bear in mind that Goldbacks are NOT US legal tender. UV enhancements and other advanced security features included. These 1 Idaho Goldback Gold Notes are made with 24-karat gold and will ship individually in protective plastic sleeves. Multiples of 100 notes do not include sleeves, but are instead bundled together with a black band. Each Goldback features security elements that include UV-enhanced artwork, serial numbers, and micro-printing. In the design of the 1 Idaho Goldback Gold Note, you will find a pioneer woman who symbolizes the spirit of Fides. She is shown taking a trail break with her young son as the family wagon stops near the City of Rocks. Tucked into the rugged high desert of south-central Idaho near the small town of Almo, the City of Rocks National Reserve is a stunning geological landscape of ancient granite spires, domes, and monoliths that rise dramatically from the sagebrush plain. Travelers along the California Trail in the mid-nineteenth century paused here to carve their names in axle grease on the rocks. These inscriptions remain faintly visible today, making the City of Rocks both a geological marvel and a tangible archive of American westward migration. Fides was the ancient Roman goddess of good faith, trust, and fidelity, considered so essential to the functioning of Roman society that she was among the earliest deities to receive formal state worship. Personified as a dignified woman clothed in white, the color of purity and sincerity, she was often depicted extending her right hand in a gesture of pledge and goodwill, or holding an olive branch and ears of grain as symbols of peaceful agreement.