>>60896710 (OP)
>anyone buying Goldbacks? Only gold is money (silver too)
I've bought a few as souvenirs. I don't live in the USA. They are beautiful, unique and very nice pieces of art. I think they are potentially a practical mechanism for using gold specie for transactions. Using physical gold for transactions keeps the system honest but gold coins are impractical for use, they are simultaneously physically too small to handle and too large in denomination to be practical for typical purchases.
Goldbacks neatly solve the problem in a counterfeit resistant, tamper evident, nondestructively verifiable format that is esthetically pleasing.