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2. California gold coinage - Wikipedia

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   Also, the small California Gold coins and tokens have been made in many locations other than California, often with a claim of being from California on the piece and these items are generally labeled as California Gold Coins or Tokens. Coin-like ingots were produced from 1849 until 1856 in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $25, and $50.

3. Classic Head quarter eagle - Wikipedia

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   This practice led to significant coin rarities in the Capped Bust series of gold coins minted from 1808 to 1834. [3] Gold specie fineness was reduced from .9167 fine to .8992 fine and the gold to silver ratio was increased to 16:1. This action was extremely astute and ensured that the new $2.50 and $5 coins would remain in circulation. These ...

4. Quarter farthing - Wikipedia

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   The quarter farthing was a British coin worth 1 ⁄ 3840 of a pound, 1 ⁄ 192 of a shilling, or + 1 ⁄ 16 of a penny. The Royal Mint issued the coins in copper for exclusive use in British Ceylon in 1839, 1851, 1852, and 1853. [1] The mint also produced bronze proofs in 1868. [2]

5. Indian Head gold pieces - Wikipedia

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   The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, struck by the United States Mint: a two-and-a-half-dollar piece, or quarter eagle, and a five-dollar coin, or half eagle. The quarter eagle was struck from 1908 to 1915 and from 1925–1929.

6. Obsolete denominations of United States currency - Wikipedia

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   Of these, the $100,000 was printed only as a Series 1934 gold certificate and was only used for internal government transactions. The United States also issued fractional currency for a brief time in the 1860s and 1870s, in several denominations each less than a dollar.

7. Eagle (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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   In 1834, the mint's 15:1 legal valuation of gold to silver (i.e. 15 weight units of silver and 1 weight unit of gold have the same legal monetary value) was changed to 16:1, and the metal weight-content standards for both gold and silver coins were changed, because at the old value ratio and weight content, it was profitable to export and melt ...