Rare British Columbia Gold !!

[Mahon]

Just got these Two beauties back a few weeks ago, only two of each ever graded by NGC

[thebeav]

Those are great pieces, and certainly quite scarce. Congratulations !

I have one or two of these somewhere, but they were ex-jewelry.

 

[physics-fan3.14]

What are these? 

When and why were they made? 

[mumu]

On 5/5/2017 at 11:27 AM, physics-fan3.14 said:

What are these? 

Coins/Money.

When and why were they made? 

1849 and 1912...to buy things with.

Answers in green.

[physics-fan3.14]

20 hours ago, mumu said:

Answers in green.

Well, smartass, apparently you are quite wrong: These are not coins, were never intended to be money, and have very low amounts of gold. They were jewelry pieces. 

And the reason I was wondering is because the NGC slab clearly says "1849-dated" - if it was made in 1849, it would say "1849". 

Here is more information on these: http://www.calgoldcoin.com/oldhtml/canada.htm

[mumu]

4 hours ago, physics-fan3.14 said:

Well, smartass, apparently you are quite wrong: These are not coins, were never intended to be money, and have very low amounts of gold. They were jewelry pieces. 

And the reason I was wondering is because the NGC slab clearly says "1849-dated" - if it was made in 1849, it would say "1849". 

Here is more information on these: http://www.calgoldcoin.com/oldhtml/canada.htm

Yes, but that also means your interest in them is gone.

 

When did NGC start grading jewelry?

[physics-fan3.14]

I never had any interest in them - I was hoping the OP would tell us about these pieces that he seemed to be proud of, and explain what they were. 

[RWB]

There are many similar low-fineness or native gold jewelry tokens with names of various US and Canadian mining areas on them. None were used as money and all are poorly made. They can make an interesting and difficult to see collection, provided the items are bought at reasonable prices.