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Colorado Silver & Copper Mining Company Stock Certificate, 1864 [201535]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Colorado Silver & Copper Mining Company Stock Certificate, 1864 [201535]
SOLD
225.00USDto c******y+ buyer's premium (56.25)
This item SOLD at 2025 Oct 31 @ 08:56UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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Inc. June 1863. "Arizona Territory" printed under title. No. 76, issued for 50 shares to HA Johnson & Co. in San Francisco in 1864. Signed by president George Cooper and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Fantastic design with bold red lettering for the title and an unusual vignette of a topless Native woman with a paddlewheel steamboat on a river behind her. Fishbournes Litho., SF. Heavy folds, some soiling and toning. 5 x 10" We have never sold this before. We did not find any mentions of this company on newspapers.com. J. Ross Browne (1868) mentions a Colorado copper mine in the Weaver District. The mine is located on the east bank of the Colorado River, 9 miles south of La Paz. It "appears more like a mighty interstratified deposit of gneiss and metamorphic slates in which it occurs...If an interstratified deposit, or nearly horizontal vein, ites great extent and width on the surface and the rich ores it contains speak extremely favorably for its becoming a lasting and extremely valuable mineral deposit" (pg. 453). Its ore comes in three varieties: 40-70% copper with large quantities of silver, 30-50% copper alone, and free gold ranging $30-100 per ton. An 1867 return showed 30.75% copper / 68 ounces silver to the ton.
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Date: 1864
Country (if not USA):
State: Arizona
City: Weaver District
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