10 Dollars, Clark, Gruber & Co., United States, 1860
date: label: Date made
content: 1860
name: label: maker
content: Clark, Gruber & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 10 dollar coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1860
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Pikes Peak mountain.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: PIKES PEAK GOLD / TEN D. / DENVER
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Heraldic eagle with shield clutching arrows and olive branch.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: CLARK GRUBER & CO. / 1860
label: Description
content: Austin Clark and his brother Milton joined forces with a merchant named Emanuel Gruber to create the most successful private coiner in Jefferson Territory (today's Colorado), Clark, Gruber & Co. The partners had enough resources among them to ensure that any mint they set up would have the best in modern machinery and metallurgy. While Milton Clark hurried back east to purchase dies and presses in New York and Philadelphia, Austin Clark and Emanuel Gruber stayed behind, purchasing three lots in Denver City and erecting a fine brick building for a fine new territorial mint.
label: Description
content: Coining got under way in July 1860. The first pieces struck featured one of two designs. For quarter and half eagles, the designs of regular federal coinage were carefully copied: Liberty head on the obverse, eagle on the reverse. For the larger denominations, the eagle and double eagle, a radical departure was offered, at least for the obverse. An inaccurate representation of Pike's Peak graced that side, along with a description of the origin of the gold contained in the coins, and the name of the place where they were struck. This was the first Denver mint mark, and the most complete as well.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Denver
label: place of issue
content: United States: Colorado
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0441.2227
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0441.2227
label: accession number
content: 1985.0441
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall metal)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis measurement)
label: Physical Description
content: struck (overall production method)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 mm; x 1 1/16 in