1860 Clark, Gruber & Co. Twenty Dollar
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Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $690,000
- Sold
- Grade
- MS64
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
This is the 1860 Clark, Gruber & Co. twenty-dollar gold piece with the mountain design. Austin M. Clark, Milton E. Clark and Emanuel H. Gruber ran a brokerage firm in Leavenworth, Kansas, and opened an office in Denver during the Pikes Peak gold rush. To save the cost of shipping gold dust east they opened a mint in a two-story brick building at Market and 16th Streets on July 25, 1860, first striking ten-dollar pieces showing a mountain with PIKES PEAK GOLD and DENVER, and soon twenty-, five- and two-and-a-half-dollar pieces. Over almost three years they coined $594,305 in gold, and in April 1863 the Treasury bought the building, which became a United States Assay Office. It was made heavier than the federal double eagle, at the same value (WIKI). Catalogue number: K-4. PCGS number 10138.
Cross References
K-4
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