Gold Prince Mill

The Gold Prince Mine was reported by Eberhart in Guide to Colorado Ghost Towns to be the largest mine in Animas Forks. It prospered in the late 1870s and throughout the 1880s. The Gold Prince Mill was moved to Eureka in 1917, and Animas Forks was all but deserted by the early 1920s.


$94.76 Gold Prince Mill, Animas Forks, Colorado, 1906 gold ingot

Rectangular gold ingot with two hexagonal stamps on the front. The left bears the following inscription in six lines as illustrated: ANIMAS FORKS / GOLD / PRINCE / MILL / 906 / COLORADO. The right stamp contains numerals punched by hand indicating this particular bar has fineness of .952, its serial number 177, weighs 96 1/3 dwt., and has a value of $94.76.

A highly important Colorado item.

Obtained from New Netherlands Coin Co in 1958.

[03/1982] https://archive.org/details/henryhcliffordco1982bowe/page/n97/