1855 Fifty Dollar Die Trial - Kellogg & Co., Copper
Strike TypeCoin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $71,500
- Sold
- Grade
- MS63
- Auction house
- David Akers
Description
This is a copper striking from the dies of the 1855 Kellogg & Co. fifty-dollar piece, listed by PCGS as a die trial. 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 describes copper trial pieces from the regular fifty-dollar dies, with reeded edge, one of them in proof. PCGS number 10229.
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