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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;predcarn, post: 148064, member: 6000&quot;]Breen quotes philadelphia mint assay reports of the &quot;Mormon&quot; coins as</p><p>being significantly underweight and gold percentage far from &quot;pure gold&quot;.</p><p>He mentions that banks took the coins at a 25% discount to face at the</p><p>time. Also that the Utah pioneers had a person who had worked at an</p><p>English mint, but did not know how to harden dies, so die damage occurred</p><p>very rapidly and the impressions were far from sharp. Also it seems they</p><p>had bad luck with the 1848(49) mintage in that their crucibles used to</p><p>melt the gold broke and there was no readily obtained substitute. If a</p><p>real coiner had been in the group, the history might be different <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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