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1849 Oregon Five Dollar - Rolled Gold Restrike

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Coin Details

Year
1849
Denomination
Territorial
Strike Type
Restrike
Series
Oregon Gold (1849)
Designer
Victor M. Wallace / Hamilton Campbell
Composition
Rolled gold
Edge
Plain

Description

This later striking of the Oregon Exchange Company five-dollar design is on rolled gold and is listed by PCGS as a restrike. Later strikings with the Oregon Exchange Company designs exist in gold, rolled gold, copper and white metal; PCGS lists them as restrikes, and NGC lists white metal pieces of both values, one of them counterstamped WOODS MUSEUM. The sources read for this page do not say who made them or from which dies; the Smithsonian notes that the original dies are held by the Oregon Historical Society (search). PCGS number 507067.

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