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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nMarauder, post: 1094651, member: 29091&quot;]I&#039;m not an expert but I&#039;ve done some close up comparisons with confirmed real strikes and I&#039;m 95% sure its real. The front shows some of the circular &quot;scratches&quot; that are common artifacts from die preparation, and examining the hair, wheat and numbers in a side-by-side comparison, they look as if struck from the same die. I&#039;ve seen one other while searching for info that also had a hole, but there was no price for it so I couldn&#039;t see how much the price suffered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish it had tremendous familial value but, with such a huge family, some of the cousins from the past have had little influence on our family today. It is exciting, though, to find gold, of any quantity, where you expected to find none!</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: Just did a search for &quot;holes in california fractional&quot; (something I didn&#039;t think to do before, duh) and found a little history where the author says, &quot;Other pieces were holed and strung on gold or copper wires to prevent loss or used for watch fobs, etc.&quot; The wire that it was strung on looks to be gold (its the same exact color as the coin). That info was at <a href="http://www.coinnews.tv/California-Fractional-Gold-Coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.tv/California-Fractional-Gold-Coins.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinnews.tv/California-Fractional-Gold-Coins.htm</a>. Wicked fascinating stuff. California territorial money in a trunk in Maine![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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