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Nevada, Virginia City. Savage Mining Company. 1869 Gold and Silver Ingot. $5.40. EF.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Ingots Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD
Nevada, Virginia City. Savage Mining Company. 1869 Gold and Silver Ingot. $5.40. EF.
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10,000.00USDto t*****3+ buyer's premium (1,750.00)
This item SOLD at 2017 Sep 16 @ 00:02UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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66.4 x 32.2 x 4.8 mm. 94.14 grams. Face: GOLD $1.80 / SILVER $3.60 / $5.40; Back: SAVAGE M. CO. / 1869; the sides are plain. Medium slate-grey with some varied highlights throughout. This intriguing ingot was run off into a shallow mold with flat faces, top and bottom sides flat, the end sides angular and rough. As noted in the Ford sale, this ingot “has the look of a bar pulled off a longer melt, stamped, and saved as a souvenir.” This is one of three ingots offered to Ford by James F. Ruddy in 1960. Rare and obviously unique, this ingot will experience strong bidding activity, particularly from those who missed it 10 years ago in its first time around in over 50 years.
Founded in 1859 on the Comstock Lode by A.O. and L.C. Savage, the Savage Mining Company was situated near the Gould & Curry and the Hale & Norcross holdings on the Lode. For the first few years their concentration was on extracting silver ore, later adding the holdings of two other companies to their own. After 1865, however, silver extractions dwindled in the area, with much of the blame placed on flooding in the mines. By 1875 Savage Mining Co. had merged with the Chollar-Potosi and Hale & Norcross companies. Savage Mining Co. reportedly was in business until 1920.
From Stack’s sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, October 2007, Lot 3541; Ex Charles W. Foster Collection, 1960; to James F. Ruddy (Empire Coin Company), 1960; to Art Kagin, 1960; eventually to Ford.