1849 Double Eagle Die Trial - K-2, Cincinnati Mining & Trading, Copper
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This is the copper twenty-dollar piece of the Cincinnati Mining & Trading Company, dated 1849. 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 knew one copper twenty-dollar piece, smaller across than a regular double eagle, carried for years as a pocket piece and said to have been obtained from a Salt Lake City miner, and no example of the denomination in gold. Catalogue number: K-2. PCGS number 395203.
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