Idaho 100 Goldback A Modern Gold-Backed Currency - RESIST INFLATION AND SPEND GOLD LOCALLY Goldbacks are a groundbreaking innovation in alternative currency. Using cutting-edge technology, we’ve made 24-karat gold practical for everyday transactions, putting purchasing power directly in your hands. This artwork presents Libertas as the capstone virtue of the Idaho Goldback series, a role Liberty holds on every 100 Goldback. Set at Shoshone Falls in the Magic Valley, Libertas carries a shovel as a symbol of work, ingenuity, and responsibility.  In the background, Shoshone Falls—often called the “Niagara of the West”—cascades into the Snake River. A crop duster passes overhead and cultivated fields stretch into the distance, representing Idaho’s continued leadership in agriculture. At Libertas’s feet, a cornucopia overflows with potatoes, sugar beets, wheat, and onions.

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Idaho 1 Goldback x 100 A Modern Gold-Backed Currency - RESIST INFLATION AND SPEND GOLD LOCALLY Goldbacks are a groundbreaking innovation in alternative currency. Using cutting-edge technology, we’ve made 24-karat gold practical for everyday transactions, putting purchasing power directly in your hands. The Idaho 1 Goldback depicts the virtue Fides, or faith and trust, through the experience of pioneer families traveling the California Trail. The scene shows a mother guiding her child across the open ground.  The granite spires of the City of Rocks stand in the background, which guided emigrants on the California Trail. Behind the mother and child, a covered wagon pulls a group across the trail. Native wildlife surrounds them: a sagebrush lizard, a pronghorn, and a great horned owl.

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Idaho 0.5 Goldback x 100 A Modern Gold-Backed Currency - RESIST INFLATION AND SPEND GOLD LOCALLY Goldbacks are a groundbreaking innovation in alternative currency. Using cutting-edge technology, we’ve made 24-karat gold practical for everyday transactions, putting purchasing power directly in your hands. The artwork on the Idaho 1/2 Goldback honors Sacagawea, an Agaidika Shoshone woman born near Lemhi Pass in what is now Idaho. She is depicted as the virtue Pietas, or Devotion. In 1805, Sacagawea traveled with the Lewis and Clark expedition to Lemhi Pass, serving as an interpreter and guide. Along the way, she carried her infant son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. Their route followed the Lolo Trail, which was a demanding path known to Indigenous peoples. In the artwork, the words “Lolo Trail” and the year 1805 are carved into rocks. 

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