Object Details
- Pacific Company
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) 10 dollar coin
- United States, 1849
- Obverse Image: Liberty cap on a pole with stars and rays radiating from it.
- Obverse Text: 10 DOLLARS.
- Reverse Image: Eagle holding a branch and a hammer.
- Reverse Text: PACIFIC COMPANY, CALIFORNIA. / 1849.
- Description
- Produced by the Pacific Company, California.
- The pieces bearing the name of the Pacific Company have a somewhat complex history. A consortium bearing that name came to San Francisco in September 1849, but the members almost immediately fell out with each other. The firm disbanded the following month, and it has been conjectured that the dies for its coinage were sold to another coiner, Broderick & Kohler. That group in turn may have used the dies for five dollar as well as ten dollar gold pieces to strike a few examples of each. This is one of four pieces known for the ten dollar piece.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Mint
- 1849
- ID Number
- 1985.0441.2212
- accession number
- 1985.0441
- catalog number
- 1985.0441.2212
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.2 mm; 1 1/8 in
- place made
- United States
- Related Publication
- Glossary of Coins and Currency Terms
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins/glossary.cfm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_741882
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c4c3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
