Cincinnati Mining & Trading Co.

An extension/correction of Walter Breen's provenance, based on info published in Coin World 6/2001.

7772 1849 FIVE DOLLARS, Plain edge, Unique?

  1. Lilly, SI.

7773 1849 TEN DOLLARS, Reeded edge.

  1. Woodward(1884), Zabriske(1909), Ellsworth, J.W. Garrett(1980), Donald H. Kagin, private collector A(1999), private collector B. EF.
  2. Spink 8/14, Virgil M. Brand(1926), Armin Brand/Burdett G. Johnson, Jane Brand Allen(1984), Kenneth Goldman(late 80s), Florida private collector (accidentally donated in 1998, returned in 2001).
    Struck over a J.S.Ormsby $10. EF.
  3. Jacob Fishel(1908), Virgil M. Brand(1926), Horace L.P. Brand, Louise E. Brand Carroll(1966), John J. Ford Jr.
    Breen has this passing from Brand to Kosoff, VF.
    This may have been confused with #6, because Kosoff and Kaplan purchased Williams' collection.
  4. Chapman(1920), Virgil M. Brand(1926), Newcomer, Lilly, SI.
    Breen reported this had a plain edge (7774 old #1), but Douglas Mudd of the SI confirmed 6/7/01 that both SI specimens have reeded edges.
  5. U.S. Mint Cabinet, SI. Cited in Adams' 1913 book (see below).
  6. Granberg(1917), Newcomer, Charles Williams, Sol Kaplan(1951), Lammot du Pont, Willis du Pont, lost in 1967 robbery.

7774 1849 TEN DOLLARS, Plain edge, Unique?

  1. Granberg(1917), Newcomer, Charles Williams, Sol Kaplan(1951), Lammot du Pont, Willis du Pont, lost in 1967 robbery.
    Adams' Private Gold Coins of California 1849-1855, 1913, says a plain edge specimen was sold in Philadelphia, 1908. It is probably this coin.