1852 California Gold $50 - "900" $50 U.S. Assay Office
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Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $411,250
- Sold
- Grade
- MS64
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
This is the 1852 U.S. Assay Office of Gold octagonal fifty-dollar piece at 900 THOUS. Moffat & Co. dissolved early in 1852 and Curtis, Perry & Ward took over the Assay Office contract; Adams places every piece reading UNITED STATES ASSAY OFFICE OF GOLD SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA under them. They struck fifty-dollar pieces dated 1852 at 887 and then 900 THOUS., the federal standard, after the Custom House refused the lower-fineness ingots, and ten- and twenty-dollar pieces in 1852 and 1853 at 884 or 900 THOUS. The office closed on December 14, 1853, and its premises became the San Francisco Branch Mint, which began work on April 15, 1854. The 900 fineness was the federal standard, adopted after the Collector of the Port refused the lower-fineness ingots; the edge is reeded. Catalogue number: K-14. PCGS number 10019.
Cross References
K-14
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