>I don't know how useful they would be out of state... Never 'spend them for face value.' Gold's value (and all other precious and semi precious metals) is constantly changing. If you were interested in getting the money back out of them, sell them privately. If you were to use the smallest one, I believe it's face value is at a dollar, it's worth around 8 or more dollars, now. (You probably knew, but maybe someone that didn't will read that.)