Mormon Coins and Currency, SSCA Gold Ingot Highlight Kagin's West Coast Auction

An offering of forty lots of popular Mormon gold, copper and Paper Currency is one of the features of Kagin's West Coast Auction held in conjunction with the Santa Clara Expo,September 21 at the Santa Clara, Ca. Convention Center. The LDS Mormon Collection of gold coins includes high grade specimens of an elusive 1849 $2 ½ NGC AU-58, the 1849 $5 inPCGS AU-58 and an NGC AU-58 1850 $5. These are followed by four different varieties of the 1897 Mormon Commemorative Restrikes struck from the original dies-- two of which arefinest known.

The Mormon currency in the collection is among the finest offering of this series ever! A very rare uncut sheet of four Kirtland Safety Society Bank notes graded AU-50EPQ is the finer of just two sheets certified by PMG. The individual Kirtland Notes include Finest Known Gem CU-65 $5 and $10 specimens as well as some of the finest $20, $50 and$100 denominations. There are also three "Anti-Banking" notes and two high grade "Countersigned" $5 and $10 notes hand signed by both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. The latter istied for the second finest certified. Other notes include rare Bank of Monroe notes signed by Oliver Cowdery, a set of the 1849 "White or Valley Notes" including three which arethe finest certified, a rare Deseret Currency Association note and a Deseret National Bank Note signed by Joseph Smith.

Another highlight of the sale is a hefty 85.35 Ounce Kellogg & Humbert gold ingot recovered from the most valuable numismatic shipwreck, the S.S. Central America. Thegold content alone approaches six-figures. Additional Gold Rush financial documents, nuggets and ancillary material are part of this sale.

Besides Colonial and Federal copper, silver, gold and commemorative coins, there is a selection of Pioneer and California Fractional Gold and artifacts.

Specialized collections include a So-called Dollar collection of Pan Pacific coins and Columbian World's Fair Match safes as well as other tokens, medals, Exonumia andHawaiiana.

Of particular interest to Northern California collectors, historians and currency enthusiasts is one of the finer Emperor Norton I notes listed in The 100 Greatest AmericanCurrency Notes.

Additional banknotes include federal and fractional currency, errors and Confederate currency.

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