Cash For Gold Jewelers (Lubbock, TX)

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Cash For Gold Jewelers (Lubbock, TX)

Cash For Gold Jewelers Overview

Cash For Gold Jewelers was a Lubbock, Texas jewelry and precious metals retailer that commissioned and sold its own line of divisible silver rounds in 2015. The store marketed the line as the Texas Fractional Rounds, a two-design series of one-ounce .999 fine silver rounds scored to break into smaller fractional pieces. God’s Country divides into four quarter-ounce segments, and Guns Up America divides into two half-ounce halves.

Both designs carry the store’s initials, CFG, as a signature within the obverse artwork. Every Texas outline in the series places the Lone Star in West Texas at Lubbock rather than at Austin, marking the issuer’s home on each piece. The themes reflect the West Texas market the store served: Texas pride, faith, and the right to bear arms. God’s Country pairs a rearing mustang with the Texas outline, and Guns Up America shows a mustached cowboy with crossed revolvers over the motto IN GOD WE TRUST, backed by a split 2nd Amendment reverse.

Cash For Gold Jewelers sold the rounds directly through its website alongside sovereign bullion, including American Gold and Silver Eagles and Canadian Gold and Silver Maple Leafs. Both Texas Fractional Rounds appeared among the store’s Best-Selling Products in 2015. Pricing updated live with the silver spot price, with separate wire or check and credit card prices, so the rounds sold as bullion at a fixed premium over spot rather than as collector pieces. On the same page, God’s Country sold about $1.19 below a 2015 American Silver Eagle, and Guns Up America ran about $0.51 above God’s Country.

Cash For Gold Jewelers Key Dates

  • August 1, 2015: God’s Country offered on cfgjewelers.com, the earliest archived listing of a CFG round
  • October 2015: Guns Up America in circulation on the secondary market, listed with the store’s own promotional images and watermark
  • October 24–27, 2015: both rounds featured among Best-Selling Products, and the Texas Fractional Rounds category page captured with both designs
  • December 28, 2016: last archived capture of the store’s product and category pages
  • 2020: Guns Up America restruck in brilliant uncirculated finish by Cut Saw Mint of Dallas, with dealer distribution by January 2021

Cash For Gold Jewelers Relationships

Cash For Gold Jewelers Attribution Notes

The CFG signature appears in the master design of both rounds and on both the 2015 proof-like and 2020 restrike strikings of Guns Up America, identifying the design owner rather than the striking mint. Cash For Gold Jewelers abbreviated its own name as CFG in its web domain, cfgjewelers.com, and listed both designs for sale under the Texas Fractional Rounds category in 2015. The store’s diamond logo and promotional artwork appear on the earliest secondary-market listing of Guns Up America.

Elemetal is attributed as the 2015 manufacturer by die continuity. The same Guns Up America design was restruck in 2020 by Cut Saw Mint, the later manufacturing identity of the Elemetal organization. Struck in Dallas after Elemetal unified its operating companies under one name in June 2015, the 2015 issues fall within the Elemetal Mint era.

The 2015 Cash For Gold Jewelers issues are proof-like. The 2020 Cut Saw restrike was distributed nationally in tubes of twenty under the Cut Saw Mint name, and the issuer’s role in the restrike is not documented.

Cash For Gold Jewelers Open Questions

  • Owner name and 2015 street address
  • Designer of the CFG artwork
  • Mintage of the 2015 issues
  • Issuer involvement in the 2020 Guns Up America restrike
  • Any designs issued after 2016

Cash For Gold Jewelers References

Coins from Cash For Gold Jewelers (Lubbock, TX) (2)