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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian T, post: 3393438, member: 77804&quot;]I was looking at the Wikipedia page for the gold dollar, when at the &quot;War years&quot; section, I came across this interesting piece of text:</p><p><i>&quot;Since dies crack in time, and all the mints were supplied with them from Philadelphia, coining could not last, and in May 1861, coins and supplies remaining at Dahlonega were turned over to the treasury of the Confederate States of America, which Georgia had by then joined. <b>Gold coins with a face value of $6</b> were put aside for assay. Normally, they would have been sent to Philadelphia to await the following year&#039;s meeting of the United States Assay Commission, when they would be available for testing. Instead, these were sent to the initial Confederate capital of Montgomery, Alabama, though what was done with them there, and their ultimate fate, are unknown.&quot;</i></p><p>So were there actually 6 dollar gold coins issued (either by the United States or the Confederate States) during this time, which happened to be lost? If so, has anyone here ever heard of these 6 dollar coins? Thanks in advance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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