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1854 Gold Dollar - BG-606

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Coin Details

Year
1854
Denomination
Territorial
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
California Fractional Gold (1852-1882)
Composition
Gold

Description

This round California gold dollar, dated 1854, is BG-606 in the Breen-Gillio catalogue of California fractional gold and belongs to Period One (1852-1857). Period One pieces were struck privately in San Francisco from 1852 to 1857 to stand in for small change, which was short in Gold Rush California; most of them weigh well under the gold value of their face (Locke 2013). Locke describes the only piece seen as heavily damaged and close to BG-605 without the G*; in 2013 he listed BG-606 among the numbers not then known in any collection. Catalogue number: BG-606 (Breen-Gillio). PCGS number 10522.

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BG-606

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