2002 September Long Beach Signature Sale Sale #300 - Session 5

1861 $20 Clark, Gruber & Co. Twenty Dollar (K-8) Struck Over an 1853 U.S. Assay Office Twenty Dollar (K-19) MS62 PCGS. New Kagin designation K-1...

1860 $20 Clark, Gruber $20 Copper Die Gilt Trial--Cleaned--ANACS. AU Details, Net XF40. K-4a, R.5. This interesting pattern was engraved back east by

Most Californians were not satisfied with private gold coiners or even the short-lived State Assay Office and demanded a United States branch mint, wh

No lot. Important notice: We expect to be auctioning lots at the rate of 200-250 per hour. Sometimes eBay Premier live bid software cannot keep up wit

1851 $50 RE Humbert Fifty Dollar, 880 Thous. VF35 PCGS. Laminated Planchet Obverse. K-5, Low R.5. The fact that this coin has a huge planchet laminati

1851 $50 RE Humbert Fifty Dollar, 887 Thous. XF40 Fields Tooled, Cleaned Uncertified. K-6, R.4. The first coins produced by the United States Assay Of

1851 $50 RE Humbert Fifty Dollar, 887 Thous. XF45 Rim Tooled Uncertified. K-6, R.4. A second Uncertified representative of this variety, both sides ex

John Glover Kellogg was cashier for Curtis, Perry & Ward of the U.S. Assay Office of Gold. When the branch mint opened (and effectively took ove...

1855 $50 Restrike Kellogg & Co. Fifty Dollar PR65 PCGS. A brilliant, deeply mirrored cameo proof. Struck from melted down Kellogg ingots recover...

Among the first coiners in California was Miners, Bank, an outgrowth of the many business interests of Stephen A. Wright and Samuel W. Haight in San F

(1849) $10 Miners Bank Ten Dollar AU58 PCGS. K-1, R.6. Unlike the previous piece, which was struck in silver alloy, this coin was struck on a planchet

Upon hearing of the California gold rush, John Little Moffat, who had worked the gold fields of Southern Appalachia along with three other New Yorkers

1849 $5 Moffat & Co. Five Dollar AU55 NGC. K-4, R.5. A high grade and attractive Moffat that has rich green-gold color and a few scattered abras...

1850 $5 Moffat & Co. Five Dollar AU58 NGC. K-7, R.4. Struck shortly after discovery of gold on the American River in California the previous yea...

1849 $10 Moffat & Co. Ten Dollar, "Ten Dol." VF25 PCGS. K-6a, High R.5. The first coins issued by the private firm of Moffat & Com...

1849 $10 Moffat & Co. Ten Dollar, "Ten D." VF20 PCGS. K-5a, High R.6. K-5a is differentiated from K-5 by large letters around the reve...

1852 $10 Moffat & Co. Ten Dollar VF20 PCGS. K-9, R.6. The wide spacing between the digits in the date is the diagnostic feature of this die vari...

1852 $10 Moffat & Co. Ten Dollar VF20 PCGS. K-8, R.6. Beginning January 12, 1852, 8,650 Ten Dollar Gold Pieces were issued after Moffat & Co...

Ironically, the first enterprise to produce private gold coins from California gold dust was not located in that area at all, but in the Territory of

1849 $5 Mormon Five Dollar XF45 PCGS. K-2, R.5. After the Gold Rush in California began in earnest in 1848, at the end of that year enough gold dust h