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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EMATiON, post: 480524, member: 16526&quot;]Is this worth anything?... I have a Mormon 10 Dollar Gold Coin,&nbsp; I&#039;ve attached both pictures of both sides of it. One one side it&#039;s engraved &quot;To . The . Lord . Holiness&quot; with a weird eye like emblem in the middle. On the other side it says &quot;Pure . Gold. Ten . Dollars&quot; and has hands shaking with 1849 under it. Can someone tell me the value they think it could possibly be worth in this condition?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://api.ning.com/files/7v0tHBVpIWpMaHIYUXgeMcUguvNl5wx7besVcrpyRXKHJTaeBN32bVjSQlHpr5xJVk2-WtjskawIQ3*okdWQOxEww9dHoeRp/1849puregoldtendollars.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://api.ning.com/files/7v0tHBVpIWpMaHIYUXgeMcUguvNl5wx7besVcrpyRXKHJTaeBN32bVjSQlHpr5xJVk2-WtjskawIQ3*okdWQOxEww9dHoeRp/1849puregoldtendollars.jpg" rel="nofollow">FRONT PICTURE</a> &lt;---click to view</p><p><a href="http://api.ning.com/files/7v0tHBVpIWru2X6fswps0lqOvSQ1ooUAj64ChmjvdOKFPv2wgRU0QpCo5*FIFhDkZ4xdOXo5IULRXMbMRONj5DcNQHl-wkUr/ToTheLordHoliness.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://api.ning.com/files/7v0tHBVpIWru2X6fswps0lqOvSQ1ooUAj64ChmjvdOKFPv2wgRU0QpCo5*FIFhDkZ4xdOXo5IULRXMbMRONj5DcNQHl-wkUr/ToTheLordHoliness.jpg" rel="nofollow">BACK PICTURE</a> &lt;----click to view</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is extremely rare, it is very hard to find even any information on it, but here&#039;s what I was able to dig up. </p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">After James Marshall’s&nbsp;&nbsp; discovery of gold in California in 1848, a number of private minters jumped in&nbsp;&nbsp; to supply the ever-escalating need for a circulating coinage in that region.&nbsp;&nbsp; By the end of 1849 there were approximately eighteen of these private&nbsp;&nbsp; operations at work, almost all located in the San Francisco area. Coinage by&nbsp;&nbsp; these minters fell off sharply after the opening of the Assay Office and&nbsp;&nbsp; later, the San Francisco Mint.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </font></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="Georgia">While no gold was discovered in&nbsp;&nbsp; Utah, Mormon prospectors brought large quantities of California gold back to&nbsp;&nbsp; the Salt Lake City area. Brigham Young conceived the idea of a distinctive&nbsp;&nbsp; Mormon coinage, and four denominations of two-and-one-half, five, ten, and&nbsp;&nbsp; twenty-dollar coins were struck in 1849-50. While the ten dollar pieces&nbsp;&nbsp; featured the legend PURE GOLD, the other denominations (which were struck&nbsp;&nbsp; later) displayed the initials G.S.L.C.P.G. These stood for “Great Salt Lake&nbsp;&nbsp; City Pure Gold,” an obvious misnomer as all the gold came from California. A&nbsp;&nbsp; second issue was produced in 1860 from bullion brought from strikes in&nbsp;&nbsp; Colorado. All the Mormon gold coins use religious symbols for the central&nbsp;&nbsp; design motifs, and the 1860 pieces use the Deseret alphabet (now extinct) to&nbsp;&nbsp; spell out the legend HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Mormon coins were the first of the&nbsp;&nbsp; Western territorials to be publicly vilified as lightweight and of low&nbsp;&nbsp; fineness. An assay performed on a group of more than $500 face value in Mormon&nbsp;&nbsp; coins in 1851 found the average ten-dollar piece contained only $8.52 in gold.&nbsp;&nbsp; When these figures became public knowledge, the coins were discounted 20-25%&nbsp;&nbsp; by bankers and merchants. Widespread melting followed, and today Mormon gold&nbsp;&nbsp; pieces are very rare, although circulated fives occasionally appear.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: Red">EDITED--No offers to buy/sell/trade</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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