1849 Massachusetts & California Co. Brass Restrike Gold Eagle
Strike TypeCoin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $70,500
- Sold
- Grade
- MS61
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
This is a brass piece in a Massachusetts & California Company ten-dollar design dated 1849, catalogued by PCGS as a restrike. The Massachusetts and California Company was organized at Northampton, Massachusetts early in 1849, with Josiah Hayden as president, the Rev. F. P. Tracy as its agent and William H. Hayden as assayer, and planned to coin gold in California. Its five-dollar design shows a shield with a mounted vaquero, held by a bear and a stag above a ribbon reading ALTA, and a wreath around FIVE D. with the company name and 1849. Adams thought the few gold pieces were trial strikings, alloyed with copper unlike most California gold, and that the silver and copper pieces were made in the East. Adams knew the company only in the five-dollar denomination. PCGS number 525659.
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