1854 3$ Gold Coins

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  1. PamR

    PamR You Never Know! Supporter

    IMG_1896.jpeg Beautiful coins a friend has. Never seen these in hand. She has asked me to look through them. Wow!
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  3. Jim Dale

    Jim Dale Well-Known Member

    WOW! I haven't even seen a gold 3 dollar coin. Thanks for showing yours.
     
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  4. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Here is one I sold late last year or early this year.

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  5. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here is an "all mints set" of 1854 $3 gold coins.

    Philadelphia

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    Dahlonega. This one has a small mintage of just 1,120 pieces. It's the only Dahlonega Mint $3 gold. This one was "a dream coin" for me for a long time.

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    New Orleans. The mintage for this piece was 24,000. It's not super rare, but they are almost always weakly struck in one place or another.

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    Charlotte Mint - This is a "never was" coin. The Charlotte Mint did not make any $3 gold coins even though the Philadelphia Mint sent two sets of dies to them. They just let the dies rust. This is "a Photoshop creation."

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    The reason for issing the $3 gold coin has never been quite clear. For years people said that it was to facilitate the purchase of 100, 3 cent postage stamps. The cost was lowered to that at the time. The real reason was that Congress thought that a $3 coin would facilitate making change between $5 gold and other pieces. The coin was never popular, and the total mintage was limited to 537,824 business strikes plus an estimated 2,200 Proofs from 1854 to 1889.
     
  6. PamR

    PamR You Never Know! Supporter

    They are beautiful coins!
     
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  7. ksparrow

    ksparrow Coin Hoarder Supporter

    They are interesting and unusual, I have this one which still looks decent despite being cleaned.
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