I just purchased this last month for $45 under spot and that’s at today’s lower prices. It weighs 1.1 grams and comes from California. Look at the note that came with it. The note was folded up and in a 2 x 2 clear plastic flip, as one the nugget. I only enlarged the first photo to show its actual size. The second photo I went larger to show more details. The note is really neat and special to this nugget.
Could you transcribe it please? ^ I had some BIEs and news letters that I bought from a former member of the Lincoln Cent BIE Guild. He and the Guild president, Joe Bush, lived across the street from each other in Fort Lauderdale. Apparently Bush got seriously ill once, because there was a note mixed in with everything: "Gary, come get your coins before the undertaker steals them."
Very cool . . . nugget and note actually from the Gold Rush! "Gold given me by Mother's brother, Eben Owen sometime in the early fifties on his visit to Portland from California"
Gold, given me by mothers brother (Can’t make out the name) sometime in the early fifties on his visit to Portland from California
Yeah, when I read "early fifties" I think nineteen-fifties - but that looks like the handwriting and ink flow on letters my family has from the eighteen-fifties, for sure.
Also, the clear effort to cram the entire message on a small scrap of paper, rather than starting again on another sheet of paper points to the expense of writing paper at the time. Not so in the 1950s.