On Tuesday, a rare $20 double eagle gold coin sold for $1.44 million, about 70,000 times its initial value.The coin was one of many items dating back to days of California Gold Rush and ...

Prior to 1849, the highest denomination for a gold coin was $10, known as the eagle. The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply ...

A rare Mormon gold coin from nearly two centuries ago is set to go on display for all of Utah to see. The coin from 1849 is currently at the All About Coins shop in the Sugar House neighborhood of ...

A lone twenty-dollar coin from this company is known. It’s at the Philadelphia Mint, and it was struck from copper, not gold, deepening the mystery. The most complete history of the Cincinnati Mining ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. Get Rich Quick ... A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people.

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

Rare coin issued after California Gold Rush sells at auction for $1.4 million The $20 “double eagle” gold coin was auctioned at Stack’s Bowers Galleries in Costa Mesa.

Prior to 1849, the highest denomination for a gold coin was $10, known as the eagle. The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply.