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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kgeiger, post: 1039876, member: 28028&quot;]Hello everyone,</p><p>&nbsp;I&#039;ve brought this thread back to life as I feel the title best represents my query – although I&#039;m not certain that mine contain any gold at all...</p><p>The world of &quot;California gold tokens&quot; seems to be a virtual jungle and I&#039;ve had no real success in finding info online on my own. Even Mike Locke&#039;s informative website has proven ultimately unhelpful... So hopefully a more knowledgeable member of this forum will be able to assist... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I would very much like to identify the following two tokens, and hopefully compare them to already catalogued items...</p><p>The first I&#039;ve chosen to simply call an &quot;Eureka token&quot;:</p><p>Eureka token obverse:</p><p>Indian head, eight stars</p><p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/kurtgeiger/California%20gold%20%20tokens/eurekaobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Eureka token reverse:</p><p>EUR EKA 1849, “Minerva”, 9 stars</p><p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/kurtgeiger/California%20gold%20%20tokens/eurekarev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The second, I&#039;ve chosen to call a &quot;Bear token&quot; [And yes I&#039;ve read that &quot;bear&quot; tokens are generally &quot;worthless&quot;]:</p><p>Bear token obverse:</p><p>Indian head, ten stars; a star not clear of first feather</p><p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/kurtgeiger/California%20gold%20%20tokens/bearobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Bear token reverse:</p><p>1849, CALIFORNIA GOLD; with final A over wreath opening, “Bear”</p><p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb41/kurtgeiger/California%20gold%20%20tokens/bearrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Any information or suggestions on further research would be much appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bezels are all fastened with a tiny screw, so hopefully not much damage has happened to the edges of the &quot;coins&quot; [In the final photo a tiny section of &quot;lining&quot; is seen protruding up from between the bezel and coin.]...</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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