California Minerva Round Variety CMRD-8

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Another example is graded MS62 by NGC (coin #859121)

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CMRD-8 is the only CMRD variety dated 1848.

Rarity 7
Coin turn?
Plain edge?
12 stars
Weight: 0.76 grams
Reverse die shared with CIRD-1, CIRD-2, CMRD-1, CMRD-4, CMRD-5, and CMRD-6.

1848 was the year that gold was discovered in California at Sutter's Mill. But all of the CIR, CIO, CMR, and CMO varieties, regardless of date, were likely struck circa-1915, perhaps to commemorate the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco that year.