1838 Charlotte Gold Deposit Receipt
RogerB
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Here's a cancelled gold deposit receipt form the Charlotte Mint, March 23, 1838 for those who have not seen one before. Normally, these were cut-cancelled and later burned. A few dozen survive in an unmarked NARA box discovered today. The box also includes Charlotte financial condition statements and contingent fund reports.
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Very nice find, hopefully we will see more.
Query, why is there a three month lag between date of receipt of the gold and date of the receipt?
Very Nice! I've added those one to my Charlotte Mint photo collection.
Is there anything written on the back? Sometimes the stuff on the back is almost as interesting as what you see on the front. I've seen that with Confederate currency.
wow, that's 30 charlotte half eagles and one $2.5D. i guess the gold dollar was a bechtler and the rest in philly coinage?
Way Kewl!!!!!!! That should be framed and on the wall at the Smithsonian!
Very, very cool.
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Sweeeeet Find! Well done, Sir!
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Was this a pre-order for the first gold half eagles produced by the Charlotte Mint??
Seems kind of coincidental that the first $5 gold half eagle was struck at the Charlotte Mint on March 28, 1838...just five days later...quarter eagles were not produced until later in the year...
Very cool!!! I'd definitely buy one of these certificates for my coin collection...
Way cool! My 38-C $5
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So cool!
If only today's paper promises carried the same weight. thanks for sharing.
The price of gold is set by faith, or lack of, in the currency it is priced in.
Cool! What's on the back?
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I'd buy Brian's 38-C too if he was selling LOL...love that die crack...
Interesting historical item.
The writing on the back looks like an endorsement and a signature.
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Great piece of Charlotte history there...
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I'll check the back of this and others next time I'm at the archives. (The back has an endorsement signed by the depositor making the certificate payable to a third party.)
Notice that it is redeemable at Philadelphia.
That is a great find.... such interesting things come out of these old archives.... I realize there are likely a hundred or so boxes searched per really good find...(blind estimate on my part)...but nice when they show up. Cheers, RickO
If there is a Charlotte Mint specialist who would like images of all these that have been located, please let me know within the next week. I will put them on my imaging list for NARA.