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In 1861, JJ Conway formed a company to help miners turn Gold dust into coins, striking $2.50, $5.00, and $10.00 Gold coins.

Joseph H. Bowie is part of the extended Bowie family which includes the creator of the fighting knife and relative who perished defending the Alamo.

Edward Dunbar decided to start his own coining operation, so he bought the necessary equipment and began issuing coins with his name on them.

Dubosq brought a coining operation – Machinery for the melting of gold dust and ore, as well as a coining press and other equipment.

Because no one was striking Gold coinage in Denver in 1858, the Clark brothers and Emanuel Gruber formed a company to assay and mint coins.

It is believed that the company had several dies created in Cincinnati and intended to go to California to get the Gold miners to trade their gold dust.

The coins that survive from the Bechtler family’s mint in Rutherford County serve as reminders of North Carolina’s rich gold history.

When Gold was found in 1828 in Georgia miners began sending and delivering gold to the Bechtlers for them to strike into coinage.

Baldwin’s coins were much needed by the citizens of San Francisco as he was one of the first minters to provide lower denomination gold coins.