1854 Kellogg & Co. Twenty Dollar

Coin Details

Description

This page is the 1854 Kellogg & Co. twenty-dollar gold piece as NGC lists it in specimen strike. When the U.S. Assay Office closed on December 14, 1853, its cashier John Glover Kellogg and assayer G. F. Richter opened their own office at 106 Montgomery Street. San Francisco bankers asked them in January 1854 to coin, and their first twenty-dollar pieces came out on February 9, 1854, a close copy of the federal double eagle with KELLOGG & CO. on the coronet. Late in 1854 Augustus Humbert took Richter's place in the firm, which coined heavily into 1855 and then stopped. Adams separates the twenty-dollar pieces by the length of the arrows in the eagle's talon, short or long; Greysheet lists short and long arrows for 1854 and long, medium and short for 1855. Catalogue number: K-1.

Cross References

K-1