State of California

The enigmatic later issues of Templeton Reid were probably made from California gold. Reid, who never went to California, was then a cottongin maker in Columbus, Georgia, where he died in 1851. The coins were in denominations of ten and twenty-five dollars. Struck copies of both exist in various metals. The only example known of the twenty-five-dollar piece was stolen from the cabinet of the U.S. Mint on August 16, 1858. It was never recovered.