We Are Buying Private Mint Gold Coins
"Private Gold" refers to coins that were made in the United States outside of the jurisdiction of the U.S. Mint. These gold coins were used to facilitate trade in remote areas of America in which regular US Mint coins were often scarce.
The makers of these private gold and territorial or state coins are too numerous to mention here. A huge demand was created during the California Gold Rush of 1848 when coins were badly needed for commerce, but the nearest US Mint in New Orleans was a month's distance away. So gold producers began privately minting their own gold coins, a few examples of which are listed here.
If you have private, territorial or state gold coins you want to sell, our gold coin buyers are currently paying top prices for them. Get the best value for your territorial and state coins! Call Midwest Mint for a free appraisal of your gold coins from our buyers at:
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Bechtlers'
Territorial gold
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Before the California Gold Rush of 1848, the gold for America's coins was mined in the Piedmont region of the eastern United States. The Bechtlers of North Carolina produced the first gold dollar in the country, and their territorial gold coins circulated widely throughout the southeastern U.S.
Mint dates: 1830-1852 ~ Minted at: Rutherford, NC ~ Variations / Denominations: $1 (shown), $2.50, $5; wide range of "grain" weights, labeled on coin.
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Mormon Gold
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Brigham Young himself was the initiator of the Mormon gold coinage system as well as the supervisor of the mint in the Utah territory colony of the Latter Day Saints.
Mint dates: 1849-1860 - Minted at: Salt Lake City, UT ~ Variations / Denominations: $2.50, $5.00, $10.00 & $20.00 (shown; first twenty dollar gold coin in the U.S.).
Gold Coins Buyer buys all "Mormon Gold" coins. |
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California Small
Denomination Gold
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If coins could talk ...
this gold 25-cent piece and other fractional gold coins might have quite a story to tell. In the 1870s San Francisco was in its heyday, flush with California gold rush wealth. If you look at the reverse, there is supposed to be a "4" beneath the "1", indicating "1/4 dollar." But swindlers often rubbed the "4" off the soft gold coins and passed them off as "1 DOLLAR" to the naive. And during the 1870s it became a huge fad to drill holes in these small coins and string them on necklaces.
So, this very coin may have bought a shot of whiskey on the bawdy "Barbary Coast" of San Franciso, been altered in the hands of a chiseler, and found itself adorning the neck of some young lady strolling on the Embarcadero.
Midwest Mint buys all "fractional gold"
California small denomination coins. |
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