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I have a set of SF $5's and the Private Cal gold preceding 1854 is a nice complement to that set, along with some of the other foreign gold that circulated contemporaneously. (View Post)

What's neat is, I have an 1855-S $20 P40 CAC Gold and it is consecutively numbered with yours. I wonder if there were others? (View Post)

Picked this up at auction from GreatCollections a week ago and just got it this afternoon. This piece in hand exceeds all my expectations. Surfaces are excellent, the dirt does not look doctored and … (View Post)

TrueViews are glamour shots. So are most Heritage and Stacks Bowers shots. GC photos do a pretty good job of showing what a coin will look like under ambient light. I have yet to see photography that… (View Post)

Courtesy of Doug Winter. Coins like these keep my fire burning. (View Post)