FAKE HUMBERT/USAOG ITEMS

DenominationDateFinenessProvenance or
other reference
$20 “proof”1853.900Ford 1967 says
there were 7; Breen
1988 estimates the
number at 16-20.
Example: Bowers
& Ruddy 3/1982:30
Breen 7723
The same in silver  Ford collection.
Taxay 124-B
The same struck over
an 1852 cent
  Ford collection;
Taxay 127
$20; counterstamped
900 and 20.00 and
counterstamped 3/516 on reverse
1853.900Breen 7726; Taxay
129
$20 counterstamped 900 and
20.00
1853.900Breen 7725; Taxay
130
$20 octagonal1853.900Paul Franklin-John
Murrell-Henry
Clifford-Bowers &
Ruddy 3/1982:33;
Breen 7727; Taxay
126
$21.06  Paul Franklin-John
Murrell-Henry
Clifford-Bowers &
Ruddy 3/1982:32
$28.62 .999New Netherlands-
Stack's-Josiah K.
Lilly-Smithsonian
$32.25  Comment in Taxay
129
$50 round1853.900Paul Franklin-John
Murrell-Henry
Clifford-Bowers &
Ruddy 3/1982:36,
37; Breen 7728;
Kagin 17a; Taxay
132 A, B, and
133A; 3 in the
Smithsonian; one in
NY private
collection
1 ounce gold disk;
1/900 on obverse with
USAOG tablet
 900Paul Franklin-John
Murrell-John
Rowe-Henry
Clifford-Bowers &
Ruddy 3/1982:47;
Breen 7724; Taxay
125 (Ford
collection); Kagin
20
$20 die trial in lead1853 Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
3/1982:39; Kagin
14
$50 die trial in lead,
uniface
1853 Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
3/1982:40; Kagin
10
$50 die trial in lead1853 Ford collection;
Taxay 133-B
$50 die trial in lead,
MOFFAT & CO on
the reverse
1853 Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
3/1982:41; Taxay
134; Kagin 20
Die trial in lead
marked 000/000 and
on reverse, 2.
  Paul Franklin-
Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
1982:42; Kagin
21
Die trial in lead
marked 000/000 and
on reverse, 2.
  Paul Franklin-
Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
1982:43; Kagin
22
Die trial in lead
marked 000/000 and
on reverse, 3.
  Paul Franklin-
Henry Clifford-
Bowers & Ruddy
1982:44; Kagin
23
Ingot, 21 pennyweight  John Ford-Stack's-
Josiah K. Lilly-
Smithsonian
Ingot, $7.26  John Ford-Stack's-
Josiah K. Lilly-
Smithsonian
Ingot, $34.37  John Ford-Stack's-
Josiah K. Lilly-
Smithsonian
Ingot, $35.80 .807Paul Franklin-John
Ford-R. F.
Batchelder-Gibson-
Stack's
11/1974:178-Henry
Clifford-Bowers &
Ruddy 3/1982:34-
Stack's
6/1997:1026
Ingot, $40 .9999John Ford-Stack's-
Josiah K. Lilly-
Smithsonian;
another in the Ford
collection? Taxay
131
Ingot, $83.71  Comment at Taxay
129
Ingot, $200  Ford-Bank of
California.
Breen 7729; Kagin
23
Proofing piece .999Werner
Amelingmeier-R. F.
Batchelder-Gibson-
Stack's
11/1974:182
“One of 10 or 11
known”
Proofing piece, 3 ½
ounces
 .999Paul Franklin-New
Netherlands Coin
Co.-Stack's-
Gibson-Stack's
11/1974:183
Proofing piece dated
2-17-53
17 February 1853.998John Ford-J. C.
Browning-Robert
Batchelder-J.
DuPont-Stanley
Gibbons-NASCA
4/1980:2422-
Bowers & Merena
11/1987:3621-
Stack's
9/1998:1656-NY
Collector
Proofing piece,
irregular, with A.
HUMBERT/U.S.
ASSAYER on one
side, and UNITED
STATES/OFFICE OF
G/SAN FRANCI/ALIFORNIA
on the other; weight
364.27 grains
[1853]  Rarcoa 8/1978:39
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