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

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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