Category: States & Countries
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Adams & Co
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Read more: Adams & Co$54.33 Adams & Co, No 934, 1851 San Francisco California Gold Ingot Obverse Text: ADAMS & CO. / NO. 934 / DWT / 881 THOUS / 57 1/12 / $54.33 Reverse Text: SMV / DOLS / CTS / 54. / 33 Edges: W.M & CO. ASSRS / 1851 / SAN FRANCISCO / CAL. Measures: 2.4…
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Bank of California
Read more: Bank of California$30 Gold Hill Nevada Bank of California 1867 Gold Ingot Obverse Text: W. SHARON AGENT / GOLD HILL NEV. 1867 Reverse Text: BANK OF CALIFORNIA / 900 THOUS / $30. This ingot is now permanently housed at the Smithsonian Institution – formerly from the Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection. See: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1102607
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H. M. Naglee & Co
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Read more: H. M. Naglee & Co$100 H. M. Naglee & Co Gold Ingot Obverse Text: 100. DOLL. IN CAL. M. COIN 880 / 2640 GR THO Reverse Text: H.M. NAGLEE & CO. $100. Located San Francisco, California. Likely Ford forgery, made to look like 1850 era as evidenced by other example (below). This gold ingot is permanently housed at the…
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Santa Rita Mining Co
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Read more: Santa Rita Mining Co13.74 oz Santa Rita Mining Co, Arizona Territory, Dated 1878, $233.55 From the Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection, permanently located at the Smithsonian Institution. Ex F. C. C. Boyd Collection. See: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1102657
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Virtue Gold and Silver Co
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Read more: Virtue Gold and Silver Co3.64 oz Virtue Gold & Silver Company Silver Ingot, dated 1966, $4.70, 999 F Thin rectangular bar bearing inscriptions on each of the four sides as follows: Extremely Fine. Attractive toning. Attributed by Henry H. Clifford to the Utah Territory. Obtained by Henry H. Clifford from Kenyon V. Painter, in March, 1958; ex New Netherlands…
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Tri-Bullion Mining Company
Read more: Tri-Bullion Mining CompanyThe Kelly Mine and the Tri-Bullion Mining Company -A History as Rich as Gold The Kelly Discovery When J. S. Hutchason (“Old Hutch”) staked the first mining claims on a rich lead outcrop near Magdalena in the early spring of 1866, he knew he wasn’t the first one there. Scattered about the locality were adobe…
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Gold Prince Mill
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Read more: Gold Prince MillThe 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…
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Eagle Mining Company
Read more: Eagle Mining CompanyThe name “Eagle Mining Company” is sufficiently popular and general that it is difficult to precisely pinpoint the exact location of the firm. John J. Ford, Jr. advises that in the 1860s and 1870s at least two companies operated under this name in Gilpin County, Colorado. The Mines of Colorado, 1867, notes of the Eagle…
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Union Mine
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Read more: Union Mine3 oz Union Mine, Value: $24.35, Mixed Metal Ingot From the Lily Collection, now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Likely a fabrication that was routed through Ford. This is the only known ingot of its kind at this time. Obverse Text: GOLD 354 / SILVER 619 F / UNION MINE / REWARD CAL / B…