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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1574115, member: 4626&quot;]Er that D would indicate Dahlonega, Gerogia, not Denver in this case.&nbsp; (Denver wasn&#039;t minting any coins until 1906).&nbsp; Assuming it&#039;s genuine of course.&nbsp; The use of a &quot;D&quot; mintmark predated the existence of the Denver Mint; it was used on gold coins minted in Dahlonega, GA from 1838 until 1861.&nbsp; Since this mint was already closed when the Denver Mint opened in 1906, they just used D for Denver as well.&nbsp; Since both mints weren&#039;t operating at the same time there&#039;s no possibility of ambiguity in what the D stands for on any given coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s real it&#039;s extremely rare; Dahlonega only minted about 3500 of these in 1857.&nbsp; Likely few survive as most of Dahlonega and Charlotte&#039;s gold coins were melted down during the Civil War.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind it might not even be a &quot;fake&quot; in the sense it was made to fool anyone; it might possibly just be a reproduction done for the sake of decoration.&nbsp; I&#039;m kind of doubtful on the authenticity; the lettering looks a little too blobby on the obverse and the D mintmark seems too big as compared to pictures of real ones.&nbsp; But I can&#039;t see the point of making a numismatic forgery just to turn it into jewelry, so I&#039;m leaning more to the explanation of it just being a decorative replica not intended to fool anyone into thinking it was genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s real it would be very valuable even in this condition![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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