By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… CoinWeek Content Partner Tom Bender is a good client of mine as well as a friend, and it was with great interest that I followed the sale of his Carson City gold and gold dollar sets in the recent Heritage 2022 (post) ANA auction. Before I discuss my dozen […]
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By Christopher Maisano – Numismatist, Stack’s Bower Galleries …… The 1851-D gold dollar is a conditionally rare and historic issue that attracts heavy interest from U.S. gold enthusiasts. The Stack’s Bowers Galleries stand-alone catalog for the Georgia Gold Rush Collection of Dahlonega Coinage features an 1851-D gold dollar that offers extraordinary technical quality and eye […]
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History of the 1861 Dahlonega Gold Dollar During the lead-up to the Civil War, branch mints in the southern United States began preparing for the war. While the Treasury Department decided not to send any additional bullion, the Philadelphia Mint shipped two pairs of dies to the mint in Dahlonega, Georgia. But two weeks after […]
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By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… CoinWeek Content Partner The Dahlonega Mint opened in 1838 as a result of the North Georgia gold rush. The difficulty of transporting gold ore to Philadelphia for deposits and/or coinage made this former backwater a viable location for the production of coinage. The Mint was opened until 1861 when […]
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By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… CoinWeek Content Partner …… The Dahlonega Mint opened in 1838 as a result of the North Georgia Gold Rush. The difficulty of transporting gold ore to Philadelphia for deposits and/or coinage made this former backwater a viable location for the production of coinage. The mint was opened until 1861 […]
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By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… CoinWeek Content Partner …… Sure, size matters – but collectors have long appreciated gold dollars, the smallest size and denomination in the annals of American gold coin issues. * * * The United States gold dollar was made from 1849 through 1889 in three distinct types and was struck […]
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