1849 J.S. Ormsby, Plain Edge Gold Half Eagle
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This is the undated J. S. Ormsby & Co. five-dollar gold piece with a plain edge. J. S. Ormsby & Co., Dr. J. S. Ormsby and Major William M. Ormsby, opened a gold smelting and coining office on K Street in Sacramento in the summer of 1849 and struck their pieces with a sledge-hammer. The undated coins read UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and CAL. around the initials J.S.O., with the value and a ring of stars on the other side. A ten-dollar piece assayed at the Mint in 1849 weighed about 258 grains at .842 fine, worth $9.37. The five-dollar piece was unknown to Adams until December 1911; it has twenty stars around 5 DOLLS. and a plain edge. Catalogue number: K-1a. PCGS number 10295.
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K-1a
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