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Territorial Gold
1860 $10 Clark, Gruber & Co. Ten Dollar AU58 NGC. K-3, High R.4. Many of the California Gold Rush gold-seekers who remained on the West Coast until the late 1850s heard a new slogan after the Colorado Gold Rush began in 1858, "Pike's Peak or Bust." Just as had occurred a decade earlier in San Francisco, private coiners such as brothers Milton and Austin Clark, with partner Emanuel Henry Gruber, built a mint in Denver City to fashion the newly mined gold into commercial coinage of known assay. The 1860 tens featured a triangular volcanic shape that scarcely resembled the actual mountain. This Choice AU example offers much remaining mint luster over original apricot-gold surfaces. We note an identifying mark beneath the first E in DENVER, and a cluster of curved slender marks below GRUBER. Listed on page 421 of the 2024 Guide Book.
Ex: Central States Signature (Heritage, 4/2013), lot 4643.
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1860 $10 Clark, Gruber & Co. Ten Dollar AU58 NGC. K-3, High R.4. Many of the California Gold Rush gold-seekers who remained on the West Coast until the late 1850s heard a new slogan after the Colorado Gold Rush began in 1858, "Pike's Peak or Bust." Just as had occurred a decade earlier in San Francisco, private coiners such as brothers Milton and Austin Clark, with partner Emanuel Henry Gruber, built a mint in Denver City to fashion the newly mined gold into commercial coinage of known assay. The 1860 tens featured a triangular volcanic shape that scarcely resembled the actual mountain. This Choice AU example offers much remaining mint luster over original apricot-gold surfaces. We note an identifying mark beneath the first E in DENVER, and a cluster of curved slender marks below GRUBER. Listed on page 421 of the 2024 Guide Book.
Ex: Central States Signature (Heritage, 4/2013), lot 4643.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/territorial-gold/1860-10-clark-gruber-and-co-ten-dollar-au58-ngc-k-3-high-r4/a/1373-3178.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-USCoins-1373-03282024
HID02906262019
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