1855 $50 Kellogg Commemorative Gold Restrike PCGS MS-70

Category: $50 Kellogg Commemorative Gold Restrike
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Struck on September 12, 2001. . The 1855 $50 Kellogg California Gold - Commemorative Restrike PCGS perfect Mint State Ex.SS Central America Kellogg & Humbert gold ingot with original case of issue. Here's something decidedly different for the collector. It is a dramatic restrike of the original $50 1855 business strike Kellogg slug--of which there are only about 14 known today in the 21st century. This Restrike offered by AUCM was produced from gold ingots recovered from the wreck of the S.S. Central America, which sat upon the ocean's floor for over 130 years. The restrikes were produced by the California Historical Society in San Francisco.

The Kellogg fifty dollar slug in all probability owes its existence to its potential as an advertisement, rather than to any commercial requirement for such a coin. By late 1854, Kellogg had ended his affiliation with Richter and had taken on a new partner, Augustus Humbert.  It was Humbert who had popularized the dramatic eagle design used on the back of the Kellogg Fifty Dollar slug when he was a principal at the US Assay Office of Gold. Ferdinand Gruner was the engraver of the slug. The Wass, Molitor & Co. firm was Kellogg's main competition in the private coinage industry, and they were renowned for their oversized $50 slugs. Kellogg unquestionably produced his artistically superior slug to show his firm's ability to keep pace with the competition at all levels of the private coinage trade.

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