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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Half Dime, post: 26305947, member: 153164&quot;]It is rather sad for a coin to be one of two known and not carry a big premium. That is the biggest downside to coinage with so many known varieties; in California gold, there&#039;s several hundred, but in ancients there&#039;s probably several thousand.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I researched the BG-1019, and even MS examples have abysmal reverse strikes. About all of them I saw have the nearly missing O and second L. </p><p><br /></p><p>You are very correct with there being a lot of copies - those of which actually do get certified are usually given a designation such as:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;1853-Dated Cal. Gold Token</p><p>Round, Liberty</p><p>Bear on Reverse</p><p>MS-63&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- generally by NGC. They seem to know a lot about the gold tokens, if I ever got a high-grade real one I&#039;d probably send it to them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That first one is really nice. Looks like a Robert B. Gray token like mine, not sure if that&#039;s the only one who put a G mint mark on the coins but nonetheless cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the second one gold? I&#039;m thinking it should be real since it is denominated correctly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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