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109 Years Ago Today..........................Post a Gold Coin

1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
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June 4, 1911 Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

Post a Gold Coin

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the historical note. I was always aware that the Alaska town of Hope across the Turnagain Arm from Indian was an early gold rush town and that near Indian in the ski resort community of Girdwood there is the Crow Creek Mine where even today one can pan for gold, but hadn't realized that Indian itself had a role in Alaska's "gold rush."

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 4, 2020 12:51PM

    @1northcoin said:
    Thanks for the historical note. I was always aware that the Alaska town of Hope across the Turnagain Arm from Indian was an early gold rush town and that near Indian in the ski resort community of Girdwood there is the Crow Creek Mine where even today one can pan for gold, but hadn't realized that Indian itself had a role in Alaska's "gold rush."

    Adding to the above. Here is some added information about the nearby Crow Creek Mine which today is the last remaining 1898 Gold Rush Placer Mine from the ICMJ's Prosepector and Mining Journal:

    "Not quite on the Kenai Peninsula, but similar to it geologically, is the famous Crow Creek Mine across Turnagain Arm. This mine worked typical stream gravels and a paleo channel that was buried 40 to 50 feet deep under a bench. This area was well glaciated during the Ice Ages. The Crow Creek placers formed both before the glaciers and after they receded. Crow Creek is both a present stream placer and a pre-glacial (paleo) stream channel placer."

    As to the earlier mining town of Hope a/k/a Sunrise located just across the Turnagain Arm water from Indian and Girdwood, it was the site of a gold rush that preceded the famous 1898 Klondike Gold Rush with hundreds who headed to Hope Alaska in 1895 and 1896. Interestingly Alaska's largest city of Anchorage (which incorporates both Indian and Girdwood) did not even come into existence until the founding of the Alaska Railroad in 1914.

    https://icmj.com/magazine/article/alaskas-hope-sunrise-mining-district-901/

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:
    Thanks for the historical note. I was always aware that the Alaska town of Hope across the Turnagain Arm from Indian was an early gold rush town and that near Indian in the ski resort community of Girdwood there is the Crow Creek Mine where even today one can pan for gold, but hadn't realized that Indian itself had a role in Alaska's "gold rush."

    Adding to the above. Here is some added information about the nearby Crow Creek Mine which today is the last remaining 1898 Gold Rush Placer Mine from the ICMJ's Prosepector and Mining Journal:

    "Not quite on the Kenai Peninsula, but similar to it geologically, is the famous Crow Creek Mine across Turnagain Arm. This mine worked typical stream gravels and a paleo channel that was buried 40 to 50 feet deep under a bench. This area was well glaciated during the Ice Ages. The Crow Creek placers formed both before the glaciers and after they receded. Crow Creek is both a present stream placer and a pre-glacial (paleo) stream channel placer."

    As to the earlier mining town of Hope a/k/a Sunrise located just across the Turnagain Arm water from Indian and Girdwood, it was the site of a gold rush that preceded the famous 1898 Klondike Gold Rush with hundreds who headed to Hope Alaska in 1895 and 1896. Interestingly Alaska's largest city of Anchorage (which incorporates both Indian and Girdwood) did not even come into existence until the founding of the Alaska Railroad in 1914.

    https://icmj.com/magazine/article/alaskas-hope-sunrise-mining-district-901/

    Here is a "coin" albeit not gold which is relevant to the OP's post in that the Indian River where gold was discovered in 1911 is today part of Anchorage.

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice coins!

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love the look of all that gold

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Fairbanks gold rush was 1902, must if taken them a while to head down to Los Anchorage

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is a GREAT thread. Lets keep em coming :)

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the pedigree holders @crazyhounddog

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :) !!!

    Timbuk3
  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the stories and the coins!🙂

    Ken
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Setting up camp on the trail to gold. Both men and women played an important role in the stampede. Location: Dyea is a ghost town three miles northwest of Skagway, at the mouth of the Taiya River in the Chilkoot Inlet. Present day access from Skagway is along a nine mile gravel road.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 5, 2020 10:15AM

    The Klondike gold rush started in 1897 & almost all the gold from that area went to San Francisco.
    The 1908-S saint mintage was only 22,000 and now a major rarity in MS for that & other reasons.
    Best I can do is a 1909-S ;) (2nd year they made Saints...Mintage 2,774,925)

    MS65

    My Saint Set

  • PQueuePQueue Posts: 901 ✭✭✭

    My former 1907 $20 Lib.

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 5, 2020 12:21PM

    Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. c. 565 A.D.


    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Justin II 565-564 A.D.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lower grade, but from my favorite mint.

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