Chapter 244: Out-of-print Gold Coins

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As for coins, in the United States, Jin Muchen has seen a lot, one cent, five cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents, one dollar, such coins are still active in the mainstream monetary system in the United States.

And the gold coins made in the United States, not to mention, there are still a large number of Eagle Gold coins in circulation in the market, and they are the favorite of countless collectors and investors.

But for three dollars in gold coins, Jin Muchen dared to promise that he had never seen it.

He also knew a lot about the history of American currency, and even the coins that were once made in the United States were of very high value at present.

For example, a silver coin made from 1794, which is known as flowing hair, can now be bought for about two or three million dollars, and a free-form Medi gold coin made in 1873 at the Carson Mint in Nevada, which can also be sold for two or three million dollars.

The $20 gold Liberty Portrait coin, made in 1894, is now estimated to be worth more than $4 million.

Anyway, Jin Muchen knows a lot of collectible American coins, but it is the first time he has seen a $3 one.

He took the $3 gold coin and looked at it carefully, because this gold coin had been sealed for many years, it was in very new condition, so that Jin Muchen felt as if this coin had never been used.

On the obverse of this coin is the head of the Lady of Liberty with a crown, while on the other side is an olive branch around the circumference of the gold coin, with the English logo of three dollars in the center. And underneath is the shape of a street carved into it. There are also some stones. Looking at the stones, it looks like the foundation of a house, but it doesn't carve out the whole house.

At the bottom of the gold coin, there is an S letter, which looks rough and does not look like it was minted.

The color of the gold coin is not yet apparent, but it is a shimmering yellow light throughout. Let Jin Muchen know that this gold coin must not be wrong, although he does not know its origin, but if it is really officially minted by the United States, then there must be a record of manufacturing, all he has to do is to go to the official website of the American Currency Museum to find out the relevant content.

Sure enough, when I opened the website, I only entered a few important information, such as three dollars in gold coins, or an S-shaped number, and a bunch of answers immediately popped up.

Just click on it and take a look. Jin Muchen couldn't help but feel overjoyed, this time he really picked up a treasure.

It turned out about the $3 gold coin. There is a record that the coin was indeed made by the official U.S. Mint.

When the United States began to develop the western region, especially after the discovery of gold in San Francisco, a large number of immigrants quickly poured in from the United States and even from all over the world.

The city of San Francisco also prospered rapidly, and in order to quickly put the city's financial order on the right track, the United States Mint set up a branch in San Francisco.

The letter S on this coin is the abbreviation code of the San Francisco Mint, and according to records, the letter S on this gold coin was hand-carved by craftsmen after the coin was minted.

In the 1870s, the San Francisco Mint wanted to produce a large number of gold coins to reduce the inconvenience of carrying large numbers of small-denomination coins for commercial exchanges.

So they designed this $3 gold coin, but because this denomination of gold coins did not match the denomination of the federal government's design of circulating gold coins, on the other hand, because paper money began to gradually circulate, so the three dollar gold coins were finally stillborn.

At the time, the San Francisco Mint produced a few of these patterns, but when the plan to put them in circulation was cancelled, the coins disappeared.

According to official records, the patterns were later remanufactured because they were not put into circulation, and even the design drawings of the gold coins were destroyed.

It wasn't until 1982, when the city of San Francisco was renovating a municipal project, that one such $3 gold coin was found in a cornerstone of an old city.

However, due to the improper use of technology when breaking the cornerstone at that time, the gold coin was damaged, and the damaged gold coin was later collected in the National Currency Museum of the United States.

In order to recreate the $3 gold coin, the San Francisco Mint also made a new copy of the gold coin's remnant, which is now preserved in the State Museum in Colorado.

Jin Muchen hurriedly called up the materials of the Colorado Museum, and from their exhibit introduction, he quickly found a copy of the $3 gold coin.

After careful comparison with the gold coin in his hand, he could conclude that the $3 gold coin in his hand was one of the genuine patterns produced by the San Francisco Mint at the time.

And it is one of the only remaining genuine items in the world in good condition, although the gold coin in the Colorado State Museum is also beautiful, but it is a replica, a modern imitation, even if its gold content is higher than the old gold coin, but its value cannot be compared with the real thing in his hand.

The street and stone carved on the side of the $3 dollar were the cornerstones of the San Francisco Mint and Mason Street, where the factory was located at the time.

None of these features are misplaced, and with that hand-carved S-shape, the identity of this gold coin cannot be mistaken.

It should be the pattern of the $3 gold coin produced by the San Francisco Mint back then, and this is really a pick.

Currency collection is not only very popular in China, but also all over the world, some of the more cherished, or more commemorative currency, for those collectors, has completely surpassed the value of the currency itself, the value of one or two dollars itself, can no longer show their value, casually millions is not a rare thing.

In particular, this $3 U.S. gold coin is almost equivalent to an out-of-print treasure, so its price must not be thought about.

At the very least, it has to start at 2 million US dollars, and the final transaction price, Jin Muchen can't estimate it, but it shouldn't be too difficult to double.

Selling two sets of silverware and getting a multimillion-dollar gold coin is not something that can be described by luck alone.

This night, Jin Muchen was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep, and when it was dawn, he couldn't help but be happy, pulled Candace up and tossed, and did several morning exercises, which made an excited nerve relax.

After such a toss, both of them were tired enough, and they didn't get up until the afternoon, and went to the hotel restaurant to eat something casually, and before the sun set, Jin Muchen took Candace into the market again.

The market is arguably the place where he has picked up the most good things so far, a Qing dynasty red sandalwood pen holder, Napoleon's cup, two sets of silverware, plus an out-of-print $3 gold coin.

This time it can be said that he has gained a lot, but Jin Muchen still doesn't plan to stop there, because he feels that he can find more good things here.

This is a very strong intuition, and according to his inference, New England has always been one of the most economically developed regions in the United States, and there are many descendants of wealthy European immigrants here, and the ancestors of those guys, when they came to the United States from Europe, brought a lot of good things from Europe.

Therefore, Jin Muchen felt that as long as he was careful enough, he might be able to find a lot of good things here.

However, because they came late today, and because these stall owners in the United States like to close their stalls early, they did not gain much after walking around the market for more than an hour.

This is still an hour before the market closes at 5 p.m., but some stall owners who have already made a lot of money during the day no longer plan to continue to stay up, and many people have begun to clean up their stalls one after another.

Feeling that it was impossible to gain anything today, Jin Muchen no longer focused on those antique stalls, but took Candace to wander aimlessly in the market.

A tense nerve in the past few days can just take such an opportunity to be completely relaxed.

This antique market covers a very large area and has many stalls, and in addition to antiques, there are actually a lot of interesting things to see.

Grab two beers and a few snacks, and the two of them will have a lot of fun walking around.

Soon the two came to a stall specializing in selling military products, and some of the things in this stall made Jin Muchen interested.

The stall owner is a young man in his twenties, but he has a full beard, and the sky is already dark, but this guy is still wearing a pair of sunglasses, wearing a desert military uniform of the active US army, and he is sitting on a recliner with a bottle of beer, and when he saw the two of them stopped in front of his stall, he raised the wine bottle in his hand at them, and said hello to them, this boss's attitude is not ordinarily cool.

Jin Muchen and Candace didn't care, anyway, they weren't interested in this boss, but the things in his stall.

This military stall is very different from the military stalls that Jin Muchen has seen before, because the military products sold in this stall are all old things.

For example, the helmets of the German army during World War I, and the uniforms of the German army during World War II, there are ordinary soldiers, there are also officers who wear, and even the riding boots that are all penetrated, and they are very well preserved, and the riding boots are even polished and shiny.

And not only that, there are many medals of the German, Allied, and even Soviet armies during World War II, and being able to collect so many things, it can be seen that this stall owner must have put a lot of thought into it. (To be continued......)