The Kellogg Twenty is Coming Home

For the first time in about three decades the Kellogg Twenty will come back to Baltimore. The 154-year-old $20 gold coin was a unique California Gold Rush specimen, which, for a certain period of time, was owned by John Work Garrett, who was a Baltimore resident, as well as a diplomat. The Kellogg Twenty is considered by a lot of coin collectors to be one of the finest gold coins in the United States from the middle of the 19th century.

It is worth mentioning that the grandfather of John W. Garrett (1872 – 1942) was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad executive John Work Garrett (1820 – 1884), who was also the company’s president. In his turn John Work Garrett was the eldest son of T. Harrison Garrett (1849 – 1888), who started collecting coins during his life as a student at Princeton. The collecting of rare coins marked lots of new rarities when the two sons of T. Harrison, John and Robert (1875 – 1961), became passionate with numismatics.

Source: Dig4coins.Com

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