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Choice Letter Negotiating a Secure Shipping of $20,000 to $25,000 of Gold Dust, San Francisco, 1849

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Choice Letter Negotiating a Secure Shipping of $20,000 to $25,000 of Gold Dust, San Francisco, 1849
SOLD
950.00USDto 8*************e+ buyer's premium (237.50)
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 19 @ 10:41UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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This a true 49er letter with unique content!!! Dated August 31, 1849 with San Francisco 1st cancel. The gold dust would be going directly to the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia to be coined! "Please write by return steamer that a policy will be open to remit by 1st January steamer." Addressed to Ludlow & Beebe Co, bankers. Ludlow and his brother were Sacramento bankers. $20,000-25,000 expected to be shipped on SS Panama September 2nd. Documents one of the earliestt shipments of Gold to the Philadelphia Mint!

Date: 1849
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: San Francisco
Provenance:

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