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Mormon Gold Two-and-a-Half Dollars (G.S.L.C.P.G.)

Designed by: Brigham Young (American, 1801–1877)
and: John Taylor
Designed and engraved by: John Mobourn Kay
Engraved with: Robert L. Campbell
Private, Pioneer, or Territorial Issue
dated 1849, struck 1849–51
Mint: Salt Lake City (Deseret Mint), Utah Territory, United States

Medium/Technique Gold
Dimensions Diameter and weight: 19 mm, 3.64 gm (3/4 in., 0.13 oz.)
Credit Line The Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession Number2004.1159
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Breen 7932
ProvenanceCollected by Sidney A. Wien (1902-1962), Atlanta, Georgia, between the mid-1940's and 1962; by descent to his daughter, Claire W. Morse, in 1962; to the MFA in November 2004, gift of Claire W. and Richard P. Morse.