2023 $100 American Liberty Gold High Relief "Early Releases" Ultra Cameo Proof 70 NGC

The United States Mint American Liberty Gold Coin Program celebrates modern interpretations of the concept of American Liberty, exploring the theme beyond the classical tradition of portraits of allegorical “Liberty.” The 2023 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin is the fifth coin in the American Liberty series. Since its debut in 2015, the American Liberty Gold Coin and Silver Medal Program features coins and medals with modern depictions of allegorical Liberty on the obverse with complementary eagle designs on the reverse. The designs represent what liberty means to each of us individually as Americans, or collectively as a nation.

The obverse design of the 2023 American Liberty coin shows a bristlecone pine, a species native to California, Nevada, and Utah. It is thought to be one the oldest living organisms on Earth, living up to 5,000 years. Bristlecone pines grow in places where other plants cannot, and are often the species that is first to repopulate the land after cataclysmic changes such as a lava run or glacial runoff.