Object Details
- Description
- The first gold from the Golden State was alluvial, found in rivers and streams and free of the rocky matrix that had once held it. Larger pieces were called nuggets. Smaller ones were called dust. It was this type of river-born metal that gave us one of our most indelible images of the West: a fortune-seeker by a stream, swirling sand and water in a simple pan, looking for the glint of wealth and a golden dream.
- Our nugget weighs about a tenth of an ounce. Its deep yellow color suggests the purity of the metal it contains-about 90 percent.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Chase Manhattan
- ca 1849
- ID Number
- 1979.1263.01100
- catalog number
- 1979.1263.01100
- accession number
- 1979.1263
- catalog number
- OC 3 B
- Object Name
- gold nugget
- money
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- Measurements
- overall:;
- place made
- United States: California
- place of issue
- United States: California
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1102737
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-3d12-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
