Charlotte Mint

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... Reformatted and updated by CoinWeek The Charlotte Mint opened in 1838. A gold rush began around 1830 after miners...

By CoinWeek Notes ..... The Charlotte Mint struck three coin denominations in 1851: the Gold Dollar, the Liberty Head Quarter Eagle, and the Liberty Head Half...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Struck in the same year as the more famous for the 1848 CAL, the 1848-C Liberty Head Quarter Eagle probably doesn't...

The Hansen Quest to acquire an example of every standard-issue U.S. coin made since 1792 has added another great rarity to the cabinet of...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   In 1849, gold coinage at the Charlotte Mint consisted of three issues: the 1849-C Gold Dollar, the 1849-C Liberty Head Quarter...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After a fire on July 27, 1844, destroyed the Charlotte branch mint facility and its machinery, Congress debated whether or not...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Philadelphia Mint prepared three die pairs for the Charlotte Mint to use to strike the 1847-C Liberty Head Quarter Eagle,...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The United States Mint branch facility in Charlotte struck 9,772 quarter eagles in 1852 using...

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... CoinWeek Content Partner The fourth installment of "Fairmont Fever" occurred earlier this week at the Stack’s Bowers office in California...

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... CoinWeek Content Partner - The dispersal of the Fairmont Collection began in 2018. It became better organized in 2022...

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... CoinWeek Content Partner One of the things about the Christmas/New Year’s holidays is that they are a time of remembrance....

By Kyle Clifford Knapp for PCGS ...... Mintmarks provide an easy tool for identifying a coin's mint of origin and have been used in various...

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ...... In parts one, two, and three of this four-part series, I discussed the early Europeans’ unsuccessful search for gold...

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ...... In parts one and two of my four-part series, I detailed the early European explorers who failed in their...

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ...... In part one of this series, I discussed the early European explorers who, despite numerous attempts, never located any...