If anyone has any Mormon gold coins to show off, I'd like to see some! http://goldmormoncoins.com/site/mob...coins.com/History_Gold_Mormon_Coins.html#2602
LDS (Mormon) church-related companies sell replicas of their historic gold coins. Replica/copy of a Mormon $20 gold coin The San Francisco Bank of California Museum has a Mormon gold coin: Bank of California Museum Utah Mormon $5 gold coin with lion and Mormon alphabet https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-...co-bank-of-california-gold-rush-museum.229307
Your link is broken. Does anyone here own any genuine ones? I think these are interesting, but well outside my collecting interests.
This is the first I have heard of Mormon Gold. Were they using the coins in commerce or just stacking for a disaster?
They were used in commerce. Most of these are circulated. Anyone interested in learning more can peruse the Heritage Archive for a wide selection and an interesting education. Most of these go for fairly high prices: http://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&Nty=1&Ntt=mormon&ic4=ArchiveTab-071515
When the Mormons (Real name The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) moved out to the Salt Lake Valley there was nothing there. Empty. Nada. Just a giant salt lake. So they had to build everything from the ground up. Including the economy. So just like the hard time tokens of the civil war and other periods they minted their own coins (at this time the Utah territory was only recently added to the US due to the Mexican-American war). Obviously they didn't make too many of these. A few decades after they arrived the Trans-Continental railroad went through bringing in new migrants and with them American money. And soon after that came Statehood
Link is working for me? To the page on the history of Mormon gold coins on goldmormoncoins.com According to that page it looks like there are only 7500 of these total in any denomination. They were made of gold from the original gold rush in 1849 because these settlers were among the discoverers, took all they could carry back with them, used dust for commerce until they decided to mint coins to minimize the loss of dust in each transaction.
I just saw a fantastic mormon gold specimen at Tony Terranova's table at the just-past ANA in August. And yes -- the sticker says $675,000. ... we have handled one before, a unique variety back when I was a small kid. I remember that it wasn't slabbed, and it was almost given to me to hold for a moment -- before they changed their minds and let me look at it while being held in an adult's hand.
