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1849 Cincinnati Mining & Trading Gold Eagle

Strike Type
1849 Territorial coin

Coin Details

Year
1849
Denomination
Territorial
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
California Gold (1849-1855)
Composition
Gold

Auction Record

Price realized
$431,250
Sold
Grade
XF
Auction house
Stack's

Description

This is the 1849 Cincinnati Mining & Trading Company ten-dollar gold piece. The California Mining and Trading Company of Cincinnati, Ohio was one of the many companies organized in 1849 to go out to the gold fields. A member recalled that only three hundred miles west of Independence, Missouri, the party was already thinking of leaving its heavy coining apparatus behind. Its pieces show an Indian head in a feathered headdress and a slender eagle with CALIFORNIA and the value. Adams found no mention of the coins in California papers and thought the known gold pieces were trials for an issue that was given up. Adams gives its weight as 258 grains and its value as $9.70. Catalogue number: K-3. PCGS number 10128.

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K-3

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