What You Are Buying
What these are
47 Vault sells commemorative collectibles: gold-tone and silver-tone coins and bars, made to be looked at, held, and handed on. They carry American civic designs. The Statue of Liberty. The eagle and shield. The Liberty Bell, the Great Seal, the Capitol. On several pieces, the 250th anniversary of 1776.
They are objects. That is the whole proposition, and we think it is a good one. What follows is everything we know about them and everything we do not, in one place, because a collectible you have to research before you can trust it is not much of a collectible.
What these are not
- Not bullion. No piece has a confirmed metal content, and none is sold by weight. Gold-tone and silver-tone describe a finish you can see in the photographs, not a material we hold a specification for.
- Not legal tender. Nothing here is currency and nothing here can be spent. Where a historic design carries a dollar figure or a metal legend as part of its original artwork, that text belongs to the design being reproduced. It does not describe the piece you receive.
- Not an investment. There is no grading, no published edition size, no confirmed metal content, and no established resale market. Nobody can tell you what one of these will be worth in ten years, and we are not going to pretend otherwise in order to close a sale.
- Not government issued. This item is not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by any government entity, public office, or public figure. 47 Vault is an independent retailer, and everything it sells is an unofficial commemorative collectible.
Why some pieces are marked COPY
Several pieces in the vault reproduce historic American coin designs, among them the 1921 Peace dollar and the Walking Liberty. Each of those pieces carries the word COPY, in capital letters, on one of its faces.
That mark is required by the Hobby Protection Act and the FTC rules at 16 CFR Part 304, which say an imitation of a coin design must be plainly and permanently marked COPY on the obverse or the reverse, never on the edge, at a size a person can actually read. We do not crop it out of the photographs. We do not write around it. We are not apologising for it.
Look at the mark the right way round. It is what separates a tribute from a fake. A replica that says COPY is a replica telling you exactly what it is before you have paid for it. The ones worth worrying about are the unmarked ones, and there are plenty of those on sale elsewhere.
What we can tell you about the pieces
Two of them we can measure for you. The Independence Edition coin, and the Legacy Edition coin which is the same design in a silver-tone finish, measure approximately 40 x 40 x 3 mm and ship in an acrylic capsule inside a poly bag. That comes from the manufacturer's own listing.
Everything else on this site is described from the photographs. If you can see it on the piece, we will name it: the figures, the lettering, the dates, the finish.
Two details are worth naming here rather than leaving for you to find. One reproduced design has "GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITES STATES" misspelt in its own artwork, and that misspelling is on the piece. Two of the bars carry a metal legend that is part of the original design and describes nothing about the item you would receive. Neither is hidden, and both appear on the relevant product pages too.
What we do not publish
We do not state a metal, a plating, a base metal, a weight, a thickness, an edition size, a mintage figure, or a country of manufacture for these pieces, because our supplier has not confirmed those to us in writing.
An unconfirmed specification is a guess. A guess printed on a product page is how a customer ends up holding something that is not what the page promised. So the rows stay empty rather than get filled. When a specification is confirmed, it goes on the product page with the date it was confirmed, and not one day before.
Where they come from
Orders ship from Tampa, Florida. The pieces are imported. We do not describe them as made in the United States, because they are not, and that is a claim that is easy to make and easy to check.
What you are actually paying for
The design, the finish, and the date. A piece you can set on a desk, hand to someone, or keep in a drawer and take out in twenty years with the story still attached to it.
No promise about metal. No promise about price. No countdown telling you to hurry.
If that is the trade you want, the vault is open. If you came for metal by weight, buy metal by weight, from someone who sells it.