FAKE U.S. MINT BARS

Mint & DateValueGold finenessSerial numberProvenance
Southern
Branch Mint,
ca. 1838 or
1839
 .9999 NASCA
4/1980:2424
San Francisco,
1865
14.59 oz; $300.9952178John Ford-Bank
of California
Photo: Bowers
1997, 264
San Francisco,
1865
  2179John Ford
San Francisco,
1865
24.24 oz; $500.9982180John Ford-
Henry Clifford-
Bowers &
Ruddy
3/1982:178
Melted after its
sale and no
longer exists
San Francisco,
1865
21.50 oz.9952181John Ford-Bank
of California
Photo: Bowers
1997, 264
San Francisco,
1865
24.21 oz; $500.9992182 John Ford-Bank
of California
Photo: Bowers
1997, 264
San Francisco, 186521.07 oz;
$433.31
.9952183John Ford-Bank
of California
Photo: Bowers
1997, 264
San Francisco,
1865
16.54 oz;
$340.20
.9952184John Ford,
1973-Jon
Hanson-
NASCA
4/1980-
Superior
1/1985:2126-
Stack's
6/1997:1027;
see Hodder
1999, 137
San Francisco,
1865
15.67 oz;
$322.33
.9952185Bank of
California
Photo: Bowers
1997, 264
San Francisco,
1865
15.01 oz;
$308.73
.9952186 John Ford-Paul
Kagin-R. F.
Batchelder-
Gibson-Stack's
11/1974:42
Photo: Owens
2000, 359
San Francisco,
1865
  2187 John Ford
San Francisco,
1865
  2188 John Ford
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