1849 Templeton Reid Twenty Five Dollar Gold Piece

Coin Details

Description

This is the 1849 twenty-five dollar piece bearing Templeton Reid's name (Kagin K-2 of his California issues), a value Greysheet knows on no other gold rush coin. Two pieces with Reid's name dated 1849, a ten and a twenty-five dollar piece, reached the Philadelphia Mint. Eckfeldt and Du Bois reported in 1852 that they weighed 260 and 649 grains, that as the only specimens received they had not been cut for assay, and that they appeared to be California gold with no alloy added, worth about $9.75 and $24.50. Greysheet records that the $25 was stolen from a display at the Mint in 1858 and has not been found, and that the $10 went with the Mint cabinet to the Smithsonian Institution in 1923. The only piece recorded is the one Eckfeldt and Du Bois weighed at 649 grains, stolen from the Mint in 1858 (Greysheet). Catalogue numbers: K-2. PCGS number 10335.

Rarity Notes

Unique, stolen 1858 (Greysheet)

Cross References

K-2