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1861 - $1.00 Pony Express Rate

United States Gold Dollar

$1 Pony Express adhesive used from San Francisco, California to New York City
7 August 1861carried by Pony Express to St. Joseph, Missouri and thence by rail to New York

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Effective July 1, 1861, the Pony Express rate was lowered to $1 per half ounce. Service was mandated by the Post Office Department and continue until the October 1861 completion of the telegraph lines.
       

1860 gold dollar minted in San Francisco

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The United States Indian "large head" type gold dollar was minted between 1856 and 1889.

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Richard Frajola, May 2006