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The summer of 1861 and I am in Georgia Gulch, Colorado Territory, visiting the private mint of J.J. Conway & Co. I would obtain examples of his $10, $5, and $2 1/2 gold pieces... (View Post)

I actually went to visit the late Henry H. Clifford before he passed away and we chatted the afternoon away talking about the S.S. Central America and other stuff. I showed him the Life magazine arti… (View Post)

Amazing! I wrote an article devoted to these coins for CW a few years ago (View Post)

Kind of cool Philadelphia North American May 27th, 1857 Scenes At The Mint.-The new cent is so attractive that everybody is besieging the Mint with sums varying from a quarter dollar to fifty dollars… (View Post)

Regarding yosclimber's statement: Yes I agree, the gold ingots recovered from the S.S. Central America decades ago and more recently in 2014 are 100% genuine, period. I remember a discussion tha… (View Post)