https://www.coinnews.net/2018/08/17/1792-washington-gold-eagle-realizes-1-74-million-in-heritage-philadelphia-sale/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.coinnews.net/2018/08/17/1792-washington-gold-eagle-realizes-1-74-million-in-heritage-philadelphia-sale/#comment-349292 Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:33:12 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=68504#comment-349292 The article linked here is interesting, because there were a lot of Washington tokens issued in Britain around this time (see “The Red Book” for a whole section). Whether it was an actual pattern from the US Mint may be debatable, but it certainly is an interesting piece. Washington apparently did refuse to be on the coinage–no actual person appeared until the commemorative Columbian half of 1892–so who knows?

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