Anyone ever checkout the Wells Fargo Museum in San Francisco?

SethChandler

It is a must see place for any numismatist. Lots of great historical artifacts regarding the gold rush

Monster gold nuggets
Several pioneer gold coins....Choice AU $50 Slug!
150 yr old stagecoach

I'll try to take some pics soon and post them...

Seth

dragon

Sounds cool! Yes, definately post pics.

I remember being in the Golden Nugget Casino In Las Vegas and seeing on display the worlds largest gold nugget, that was quite a nice chunk of gold.

SanctionII

Last spring my then 4th grader went on a field trip to Sacramento. I went along as a parent chaperone. One of the stops was at the Wells Fargo Building on Capitol Mall. The main floor had a large area dedicated as a museum for the history of the company. Included in the museum was a fully restored Wells Fargo stage coach, and an assay office (with original scale, vault, multiple gold coins and other tools of the trade). The best part was when the tour guide had the kids line up (my son was first in line) near the vault. The next thing you know my son is holding a 40 pound bar of solid gold. Uber cool. The look on his face and on the faces of his classmates as they held the gold bar was priceless (though at $400.00 per ounce for gold, the gold bar would bring $256,000.00)