Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

Lot of 14 Graf Zepplin Silver Ingots. Commemorative " First Europe-Pan-America Round Trip May 1930." .999 Fine Silver Date: Locati...

Graf Zepplin Silver Ingots. Commemorative " First Europe-Pan-America Round Trip May 1930." .999 Fine Silver Date: Location: HWAC...

Lot of 6 Silver Bars with"Santa for President" and face of Santa. Each is .999 One Troy Ounce. Limited to 2000. Date: Location: HW...

The Hamilton Mint "America's Greatest Events, Group IV. " Five Silver Bars sealed in the original case. Features "Invention of ...

Lot of 8, "Happy Birthday" .999 Fine, 1 Ounce Silver Bars. Say it with Silver!! Date: Location: HWAC# 74069

Lot of nine one ounce silver bars: 3 Graf Zeppelin; 1 Welcome to Boston, ANA 1973; 2 "Santa for President Merry Christmas"; The Cheetah 19...

An ingot of unknown origin, possibly Japanese but not found in books. We offer no opinion on this piece and invite you to study the photo or examine i

Dateline Nevada, Cala., April 16th, 1860. Issued to Jacob ----for $566 to be paid at sight. Signed Birdseye & Co. Ship vignette (top center) and...

Issued in Sacramento, Sept. 16, 1865 for $5,000 in Gold Coin to S.J. Shern. Signed DO Mills & Co. Very attractive exchange with two different sh...

No. 15031, issued June 16, 1860 to David Schlecht for $50. Signed DO Mills & Co. Two ship vignettes. Folds, creases, some toning. 4 x 8.5" ...

Lot of 3 for the London & San Francisco Bank, Limited. 1) 1874 Receipt for Telegraphic Transfer for funds paid at Drexel, Morgan & Co., New...

No. 5454, issued for 15 shares to G. Vignean of San Jose on Jan. 19th, 1894. Signed by the president, Wendell Easton, and secretary., G.D. Barnard. No

Rare. This was the first bank incorporated in California. No. 22, $52.60. Issued February 23, 1859. Signed by G.D. Street. Vignette at left of the ban

Two different for this SF firm with large ties to Paris, which explains why one of these is all in French. 1) 1879 Second of Exchange for $292.50, blu

Lot of s Second of Exchanges both issued in 1882. To be drawn at the New York office. 3.75 x 8.5" Folds. The company was established in 1861 by...

Two different 1865 Second of Exchanges. One is to be paid in U.S. Gold Coin for $100, drawn on Drexel, Winthrop & Co. in New York. This has a 20...

Lot of five bullion deposit receipts issued by the United States Mint at San Francisco dated from 1907 to 1935. Deposits from Oroville and Downieville

Lot of 3. All dateline Denver. 1) 1866 signed by JH Goodspeed, cashier. Some staining. 2) 1867 signed by Kountze & Co. 5 cent IR adhesive stam...

Both dateline Denver. 1) 1866 signed by Luther Kountze, president. Some staining on left. 2) 1867 signed by J.S. Raymonds, cashier. Staining on righ

Two different. 1) 1867 draft issued for $200. Signed Kountze & Co. RN-B revenue imprint. Vignette of Denver looking west with foothills and snow...

Leather pouch 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches with drawstring stamped on both sides "Compliments / The Bank of Telluride / Telluride, Colorado." Dat...

Fourth of exchanges are not common! This one is also very early. Dateline Augusta (Geo), February 1st, 1820. No. 4, issued for 1,000 pounds sterling t

8.5" x 5.5" broadside for the sale of $1,800 in bank notes at a July 9th, 1887 public auction in Blanchard, Iowa by C.G. Anderson, assigne...

Mint Bag Label. "Mint of the U.S., New Orleans. 1860-0, Silver Dollars, $1,000." Date: 1860 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana HWAC# 75105

Lot of 4. 1) Two Board of Health, Comptroller of the City of Baltimore drafts, issued in 1876 and 1879, from appropriation from the Marine Hospital.

1) 60 day First of Exchange from WT Williams to Jon Watt Co? 1858 with sailor and allegorical lady vignette. 2) First of Exchange from Patterson. Mull

Lot of 4. 1) Best is pictorial draft for L & A. Scharff, Distillers, 1879, with Native American vignette and bourbon label vignettes. Tear with ...

Memo. of Silver Bullion deposited at the Mint of the U.S. at Carson City, Nevada. BA No. 2. "Before Melting, 23.95" "after melting 2...

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Rare! Inc. March2, 1895. No. 34, issued for 15 5/13 shares to Moritz Scheeline, a Reno banker, on May 24th, 1895. Signed by the president and secretar

Lot of 8. Includes: 1866 Gould & Curry, Virginia City check signed by Janin, IR and Nevada adhesive revenue stamps; two pictorial State Controll...

For $5000 in gold coin. Punched, right black smudge. Date: 1899 Location: Buffalo, New York HWAC# 69040

Letter to "Charlie & John regarding a coin silver soup ladle on the one side reading "Theo: Dubosq / Philadelphia. Date: 1958 Locati...

1) Mineral del Monte, 1867. Blue paper, text in Spanish. 4.25 x 8.5" Small mining town in Hidalgo. 2) Two First of Exchanges, Manuel Dunde, 187...

Allender's Gold Coin Scale is adjusted to weigh & guage all American Gold Coins "and is a perfect protection against COUNTERFEITS...&qu...

Mid-nineteenth European scales. This is technically a balance scale. In all probability,tis scale was used to determine weights of coins, as indicated

Balance Scale and Loose Weights. Pans are 44 mm (about 1 3/4 in). One counterfeit detection, "Half Guinea" weight. Two Victorian Era ,Br...

12 mostly embossed coins of the world postcards. Framed 1874 Carson City Savings Bank check with 1870 coin vignette. Date: Location: HWAC# 73034

Rare. Tickets $1 each. Prizes from $1 to $10,000. George Washington portrait at lower left plus other vignettes. Printed signature of secretary John

Lot of 17. 1) Pennsylvania: Drexel, Harjes & Co. Duplicate of Exchange, Philadelphia, 1886; unnamed Philadelphia Second of Exchange, 1852, picto...

1) Continental Bank Note Company Engravers Plate. This sheet would have been sent to National Banks with samples of what the Continental Company could

Approx 60 treasure hunter magazines including Treasure, Lost Treasure and Western Treasure. Mostly 1970's issues. Date: 1970's Location: ...

7 Books & Auction Catalogs, Numismatics related. Private & Fractional Gold 1) California Coiners and Assayers 2)California Gold, Dollars,Ha...

Clark, Gruber and Company (1860-1865) A Pioneer Denver Mint by Nolie Mumey, edition limited to 800 signed copies. This signed copy of #287.pp.87. D

2 VHS tapes, 2 Gold Coins of the Old West by Winter, Carson City Morgan Dollars by Crum, Crime of 873 by Van Ryzin, James Crawford-Master of the Mint

Kenneth W. Lee wrote this early reference on California fractional gold based on his long career dealing in the subject. As Q. David Bowers notes in t

Early edition of the book that used U.S. Treasury currency plates to aid in the detection of counterfeit currency in the 19th century. Hard cover, 4 1

Hard bound, 72 page, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch, green covered edition of the first work on private and territorial gold coins in the United States. Only one

1851. This is the second edition. All plates are present. Outside of little and light foxing, this book is in near perfect condition. 9 x 6". S...

The Story of The Bank of California, National Association and its First 100 Years in the Financiall Development of the Pacific Coast, by Neill C.Wilso