Gold Receipts from the Dahlonega Mint are extremely rare. Less than a dozen are known. This receipt Deposit # 1022 was given to A.E. Mathews a miner in 1846 when he brought 2 lots of raw gold into the mint for the minting of coins. It is signed by William Grisham, for Treasurer. He would have left the mint with this receipt and returned in several days to pick up shiny new 1846 Quarter Eagles or Half Eagles.

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