1849 California territorial $5 gold for $100? S O L D
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Until you win the lottery and buy that $50 octagonal Humbert or Clark Gruber piece. This is an 1850s-era $5 liberty brass gaming token.
The obverse features a liberty bust very similar to the territorial Dunbar, Wass & Molitor, Kellog & Co. pieces and US Mint pieces of the era, and is dated 1849.
The reverse features a kneeling miner '49-er, pick ax and shovel in front of him, with a massive gold nugget in his hands, and the word CALIFORNIA above his head, the year 1849 beneath him. The full figure on the reverse calls to mind the Baldwin & Co. horseman territorial gold piece.
Nice strike and virtually flawless fields.
There is what looks like a small planchet clip at 1:00. Or maybe someone tried to fool the wrong shop keeper or riverboat gambler who tested its authenticity. Either way, NGC felt it was as struck and that the piece is worthy of an AU55 grade.
Plenty of golden (brass) luster beneath original uncleaned surfaces.
It really, really looks like a territorial gold piece.
A real gold territorial $5 in AU55 would run you $10,000 to $100,000.
I'm asking $95 shipped.
Until you win the lottery and buy that $50 octagonal Humbert or Clark Gruber piece. This is an 1850s-era $5 liberty brass gaming token.
The obverse features a liberty bust very similar to the territorial Dunbar, Wass & Molitor, Kellog & Co. pieces and US Mint pieces of the era, and is dated 1849.
The reverse features a kneeling miner '49-er, pick ax and shovel in front of him, with a massive gold nugget in his hands, and the word CALIFORNIA above his head, the year 1849 beneath him. The full figure on the reverse calls to mind the Baldwin & Co. horseman territorial gold piece.
Nice strike and virtually flawless fields.
There is what looks like a small planchet clip at 1:00. Or maybe someone tried to fool the wrong shop keeper or riverboat gambler who tested its authenticity. Either way, NGC felt it was as struck and that the piece is worthy of an AU55 grade.
Plenty of golden (brass) luster beneath original uncleaned surfaces.
It really, really looks like a territorial gold piece.
A real gold territorial $5 in AU55 would run you $10,000 to $100,000.
I'm asking $95 shipped.
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