The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06


the other. the diadem bearing the word
Liberty being plain, while the second
variety shows q smaller head and the
diadem bears FIVE starllke Ornamental.
The date of both coins In the same, 1877
High records for rare American coins
were also created at the auction OF me
Of this city In Philadelphia. Conspicuous
among the new records are those pre-,
miums which have been paid for the gold
coins Of various denominations Issued by
private persons in this country from 1880
up TO 1851. These coins were Issued In
Georgia, North Carolina. California, utah'
Oregon'and Colorado.
The frst record made was $s5 for a
United States quarter eagle. dated lSSS.
which bears the tiny capital letters Cal
on the reverse, though he rest OF the de-
sign Is the same as that OF the regular
United States gold piece OF the sIaae ae.
nomination. This coin was struok . uls
to reach the East from the newly discov.-
cred gold fields in the Sierra Nevadas: A
ten dollar gold piece OF the Cincinnati MIN
ing and Trading Company OF Cahfornla,
dated 1849, with an Indian ead on one
side, brought 1880. Another ten dollar
nation 10 Dolls. surrounded by thirty
eight stars and the letters us. o. IN tne
centre of the diverse. a coin struck py
j, 6. Ormsby i Co. at Sacramento. Cal,
in 1s49, brought the record price OF Sl,oOo.
The first complete set OF the gold coins
struck by the Mormons in Utah IN ls4s.
1850 and 1880 ever offered at public sale
twenty dollar piece brought S27o at the
Zabriskie sale. The ten dollar piece OF
the same series brought $7oS. which Is
the record auction price for ne coin.
Two gold pieces struck in Oregon IN
ls4s. OF odd design, with the princiPsi
denominations .. IS and a1o. brought
$40 and $3.50. The ten dollar piece OF
this series is one OF the rarest OF American
coins, but the very poor condition OF IMP
coin just sold accounts for the COM
paratfvely low premium. -
The issues OF the California onioeo
San Francisco from 1851 to 1858. brought
several high records. An unoirculated
specimen Of the octagonal fifty dollar gold
piece, or Slug the finest specimen
known, looking as II just made yester-
day. brought 81. 900. which almost double
the previous premium paid for such
coin. Three other octagonal hfty dollar
pieces brought respectively $40. $500 and
$3.50. For a twenty dollar piece made at
the same assay office a record price OF
$500 was paid. while one OF the ten dollar
pieces brought 3ll0.-
Two coins Of gold struck by Baldwin
&Co. OF San Francisco in 1850 OF the de.
nominations Of five and ten dollars brought
record prices OF $50 and $3.50 respece,
lively. A little rectangular ingot OF gold
issued by Mofat 4 Co. in 1s49 to supply
the place OF gold dust as a currency,
valued at SIC intrinsically, brought $2s5,
and a ten dollar piece issued in the same
year by the Miners Bank OF san iran,
piece, circular in form, issued by the
San Francisco in 1855. brought q record
price Of $3.50, the best previous price
being s575. paid in this city some years
ago. Even the trial or pattern pieces
OF the California private coinage, struok
in silver and base metals. brought pre-
miums representing many times the value
Of the coins in gold. $780,
Two Ave dollar gold coins issued by the
Massachusetts, and California Company
in isI9, respectively struck In silver and
copper. brought s72.5o and $sl; a 70
pattern ooin struck in brass. bearing tne
fornia, and dated ls4s, the only example OF
this contemplated coinage known TO exist,
brought $105, while a set OF four pattern
$50, SO, IS and 50. so coins OF handsome
design, bearing thenameof San Francisco.
dated 1851, and struck in silver
$28 each.
The only twenty dollar gold piece OF
Colorado, dated 1880, to be offered at
public sale OF recent years brought a high
record Of se45. This coin was struck by
the private coming firm Of Clark. Gruber
4 Co.. which operated in Denver in 1860
and 1851.
A $3.50 gold piece struck by Templeton
Reid of Georgia, an assayer who con
Quoted a private coming usine IN mat
State in 1880, brought $3.50.
The gold coins OF the denominhtion OF
81, 81. SO and IS made by the Bechtlers OF
North Carolina from 1881 to some time
in the sos brought many new records.
A one dollar gold piece issued by Chris
topher Bechtler weighing % grains OF gold
brought SIS. A $2.5O piece made BY the
same assayer bearing the inscription
North Carolina Gold $50 20 G. IS a..
brought a high record Of 500. the highest
premium ever paid for one OF these private
quarter eagles. Another s.. 50 piece issued
BY this coiner, OF slightly different design.
showing ESQ 20 c." on one side, brought
$500. while a third. bearing the inscrip.
ton Carolina Gold 10 G.. 20 Carats.'
brought $I35. New records also were
made for the five dollar pieces issued BY
the Bechtlers. One variety. OF the weight
OF $50 grains brought 1920. while another
OF the issue of August Bechtler weighing
l4l grains. Of a fineness OF 20 carats, sold
Tor 8on