1851 Schultz, Copper DT Gold Half Eagle
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This is a copper striking from the dies of the 1851 Shultz & Co. five-dollar piece, listed by PCGS as a die trial. Judge G. W. Shultz and William T. Garratt ran a brass foundry on Clay Street that made most of the dies used for private coinage in San Francisco, with Albert Kuner cutting the designs. Shultz also coined five-dollar pieces in 1851 from gold dust supplied by bankers, until a state law ended the business. The coronet reads SHULTS & CO., an error by the engraver, since Shultz spelled his name with a Z. Three pieces assayed at the Mint in 1851 averaged .879 fine. It is a striking from the firm's dies in a base metal, not one of the gold coins. PCGS number 10317.
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