slug: nickname for the heavy $50 gold pieces issued privately and officially following the Gold Rush in California.
small cent: as opposed to the Large Cent, these are the smaller-sized copper One Cent pieces struck from 1856 until today.
Slug Any of the round or octagonal California private issue $50 gold pieces from the 1851-1855 gold rush era.
slug: A term applied to the gold $50 coin or ingot issued by various private mints in California from 1851 to 1855 occurring in both round and octagonal shapes.
slug
Slang for the octagonal and round fifty-dollar gold coins struck during the California gold rush.
Pan-Pac slug Slang for either of the 1915-dated Panama-Pacific fifty-dollar commemorative coins, the octagonal or the round.
slug
In coin collecting terms a term applied to the $50 gold coin issued by various private Mints in California from 1851 to 1855 occurring in both round and octagonal shapes, ...
Slug
Slang term for the round or octagonal California private issue $50 gold pieces from the 1851-1855 gold rush period. Also, occasionally used in conjunction with the $50 PAN-PAC's.
A slick slug with almost no detail - identifiable by chance or when the other side of the coin is a higher grade ...
Pan-Pac slug
Synonym for the round or octagonal 1915-dated Panama-Pacific fifty-dollar commemorative coins.
Panama-Pacific Exhibition
A 1915 exhibition held in San Francisco, California to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal.
Was this almost-slug of 1793 chain cent handled by anybody whose name I would recognize?
slug A term applied to the $50 gold coin issued by various private Mints in California from 1851 to 1855 occurring in both round and octagonal shapes, or to tokens manufactured expressly for use in certain coin-operated machines.
:AU+/MS60 Slider, in other words, if the person was grading loosely the coin might pass for an MS60 slug A term applied to the $50 gold coin issued by various private Mints in California from 1851 to 1855 occurring in both round and octagonal ...
$50 gold slug. 887 THOUS. on ribbon. K-4. Rarity-5+. AU-55. Lettered edge. Lightly cleaned long ago. Bright, attractive gold surfaces. Far above average in overall quality in the context of this desirable, very early issue.
The unique $50 octagonal shape soon became a symbol of California coinage and was known as a “slug.' Their reverse is an example of what machinists call engine-turning - a design of several concentric circles used on watches of that period.
I have a Quarter with nothing stamped on it. It looks like a "slug" but has the same weight, and color of a quarter, including the sides. Any info on this, please let me know.
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Pan-Pac
Short for the Panama-Pacific Exposition Gold & Silver Commemorative coins which were all produced at the San Francisco Mint in 1915. See also: SLUG.
coins are usually square or rectangular in shape and are reminiscent of the centuries-old European silver coins, like the 1627 Transylvania 2-taler klippe shown below. Two nonround gold issues are the hexagonal-shaped Augustus Humbert $50 gold slug, ...
Complaints continued to pour into the Treasury. For example, due to there magnetic property, many mechanical devices treated the new cent as a slug. Back then, there were quite a few uses for the cent and this was a big deal.
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