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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 616290, member: 2100&quot;]I also agreed that this is a reproduction and not made of gold. While the design is similar, letter spacing and relative positions of devices are way off. The lettering on the original is spaced such that there is about a letter width between each of the letters, whereas your example has very close lettering. There are many other differences as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>The early examples of these gold coins were minted without alloy. Because the soft metal wore so rapidly, a small percentage of silver was added to make the metal harder. The actual gold weight of these coins varied by a considerable amount, and using a $20 gold piece as an example, the intrinsic value of the gold varied from $16.90 to $17.53.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1849 $10 Mormon gold piece is quite rare, with only 10 pieces known to exist as mentioned in my 1984 reference book on the topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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