1849 Pacific Co, Copper DT Gold Half Eagle
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $37,375
- Sold
- Grade
- VF30
- Auction house
- Stack's
Description
This is a copper striking from the dies of the 1849 Pacific Company five-dollar piece, listed by PCGS as a die trial. Adams concluded that the Pacific Company pieces were almost certainly the work of Broderick & Kohler, the partnership of David C. Broderick and Frederick D. Kohler, who coined five- and ten-dollar pieces in San Francisco in 1849, probably by hand with a hammer. One side shows an eagle with PACIFIC COMPANY CALIFORNIA and the date; the other a liberty cap among rays and stars above the value. Mint assays found the ten-dollar piece 229 grains at .797 fine, worth $7.86, and the five-dollar piece 130 grains at the same fineness, worth $4.48. It is a striking from the firm's dies in a base metal, not one of the gold coins. PCGS number 10303.
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