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   SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
PIONEER GOLD COINS

These 1851 patterns for a proposed coinage are among the most artistic of all private coinage.  They were apparently made for speculation in San Francisco by a company from Birmingham, England, as an eagle hub bearing this name is mentioned by Don Taxay as possessing an English pedigree.  Denominations of $2½, $5, $10, and $20 are known in silver, copper, and white metal.  The master hub is presently in the Bank of California museum.

--Reprinted with permission of the author from Donald H. Kagin's, "Private Gold Coins and Patterns of the United States", copyright 1981, Arco Publishing, Inc. of New York


 

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