Territorial Gold
1850 $5 Moffat & Co. Five Dollar, Small Eagle, AU50 PCGS. K-7, R.4. The Small Eagle variety. This well-defined and satiny green-gold representative is smooth aside from faint hairlines and a linear mark on the top of the eagle. Moffat & Co. was the most respected of the Gold Rush coiners, and their reputation lived up to the abbreviation S.M.V. (for Standard Mint Value) on the reverse legend. Listed on page 391 of the 2017 Guide Book. Population: 10 in 50, 42 finer (3/17).
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