PIONEER GOLD COINS & BARS
CALIFORNIA GOLD
Adams & Co.'s Express & Banking House of San Francisco (ingots only)
Argenti & Company (ingots only)
Baldwin & Company
Blake & Co.
J.H. Bowie ...
pioneer gold: Gold coins, often privately produced, struck in areas of the United States to meet the needs of a coin shortage, generally in traditional U.S. denominations. The U.S.
There are three classes of "pioneer gold."
Famous coins catalogued in The Red Book (A Guide Book of United States Coins, by R. S. Yeoman and Kenneth Bressett, issued annually) amd Garrett (The History of United States Coinage as Illustrated by the ...
Pioneer gold: privately issued gold coins struck by a variety of minters anywhere in America where gold was discovered.
pitted: a coin that has tiny pockmarks of missing metal caused by corrosion.
Pioneer gold Those privately-issued gold coins struck prior to 1861. These include coins struck in Georgia and North Carolina although no Â"pioneersÂ" were responsible for the gold mined in those states.
Pioneer Gold
See TERRITORIAL GOLD
PL
See PROOFLIKE
Plain Edge
No lettering around the edge of a coin. See also: REEDED EDGE and LETTERED EDGE.
pioneer gold
Gold coins struck prior to 1861 by private individuals.
pitted ...
pioneer gold
In coin collecting terms Gold coins, often privately produced, struck in areas of the United States to meet the needs of a coin shortage, generally in traditional U.S. denominations. The U.S.
Pioneer Gold
Privately produced gold coins, struck to address coin shortages in frontier regions of the United States.
PL (Prooflike) ...
The only fractional gold pieces for which evidence exists of actual contemporary use are those of Period One, and these issues are the ones most highly sought by collectors of pioneer gold coins.
Birdsall, The Bechtlers and Their Coinage - North Carolina Mint Masters of Pioneer Gold by Rodney Barfield and Keith Strawn, Private Gold Coins and Patterns of the United States by Donald H. Kagin, Ph.D.
Piedfort - Refers to French coins that were twice as thick as normal because their value was double that of their regular counterparts. Pioneer Gold - Gold coins struck prior to 1861 by private individuals. ...
 See also: Gold, Pattern, Mint, Struck, Issued
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