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Tiny pieces of Gold Rush history fetch big bucks

By Martin Griffith
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Tiny pieces of California Gold Rush history fetched big bucks at a Reno auction of Western Americana.

Holabird-Kagin Americana reports the Jack Totheroh (Toth-uh-row) Collection of 200 gold coins privately issued in San Francisco in the 1850s sold for $865,000 — more than two times above the estimate of $360,000.

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