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

(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