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Bullion Receipt and Assay Records from the Denver Branch Mint, c. 1873-1894 [173123]

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Bullion Receipt and Assay Records from the Denver Branch Mint, c. 1873-1894    [173123]

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Seven documents, mostly all from the 1870s. Three bullion deposits, 1876, 1877, 1878. With the 1877 and 1878 pieces, the agent, curiously, is Ballou, the same agent that shipped Breckenridge gold to the Philadelphia Mint as seen in another lot in this section. This time, however, Ballou was acting for the City National Bank. Each of the two receipts shows Colorado amalgam grains. The gold was running about 760 fine, and the silver about 230 fine in each case. an 1894 gold bullion receipt from Gilpin County retort gold, which had a similar purity of 736 fine. Two Branch Mint outside assay reports are for assays on rocks from the White Rock Lode, Boulder County, Colorado Territory submitted by Longdon & Wells. In this case, it is very high grade gold ore. The last piece is an "Assayer's Report Upon Ore", a generalized US Mint form. E. Hemens submitted a sample nearly evenly split between gold and silver, though no geographic designation is shown. Denver Colorado Franklin Collection