RARE COINS AT AUCTION.; Gold Dollar of 1861, a Specimen of Which Brought $280, to be Sold. Share full article. Feb. 7, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

NEW ORLEANS - An exceedingly rare 1787 gold Brasher doubloon has been sold for $7.4 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a gold coin. Blanchard and Co., the New Orleans-based coin and ...

John Albanese, a rare coin dealer in Far Hills, N.J., since 1978, appraised about 200 of the gold coins. "This is the most impressive Southern-minted gold I've seen in my lifetime," he said.

It was out East that many of the coins were destroyed — melted down along with other gold coins by the U.S. mint and used to create new U.S. gold coins. In 1861, Utah territory governor Alfred ...

Those are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins,” as he aims his camera at the artefacts lodged in the dirt. ... An 1861 $1 with a mint error, found in the hoard.

Over 700 gold coins dating back to the US Civil War was discovered on a ... Kentucky adopted a neutral stance during the 1861-1865 Civil War between the slave-holding South and the North but was ...