California Gold Discovery Centennial Type I Gilt

Value of 1948 HK-496 California Gold Discovery Centennial Type I Gilt

This So-Called Dollar is given the catalog number HK-496

The reverse text is Centennial Celebration Discovery of Gold in California 1848-1948. The front side of the coin shows a female sitting with a staff and a Roman helmet and shield in the foreground, a bear is above her head and the ocean is in the background with four visible ships in the water, a miner works near her feet in the fields. The backside of the coin depicts a man in the center of the octagon coin pans for gold with his cabin in the distance, mountains in the background and text surrounding in a circular pattern.

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