1849 Templeton Reid Twenty Five Dollar Gold Piece - K-2 Copper Restrike

Coin Details

Description

This copper piece has the design of Templeton Reid's 1849 twenty-five dollar coin and is listed by PCGS as a restrike under Kagin's number K-2. 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. PCGS and NGC list copper pieces with the design of the twenty-five dollar coin under its Kagin number, K-2, and Greysheet lists a white metal die trial; the sources read for this page do not say when or from which dies the copper pieces were struck. Catalogue numbers: K-2 (copper). PCGS number 525658.

Cross References

K-2 (copper)