I'm New & Not A Collector, Found Coins?

@shaynelindstrom, first welcome to CCF. Second, these are purporting to be California gold, but huge numbers were made either as fakes or for jewelry. As you can read in the previous thread below, examples with either a bear on them or no denomination (like yours) tend to not be the real thing. You could confirm at a pawn shop or coin shop if the pieces were actually made from gold, but they almost certainly weren't.


http://goccf.com/t/235328

They are tourist pieces, copies of early California restrike pieces (1875?), many forms were made as restrikes had very little gold content, the copies have none. You can tell they are copies because the font style of date is wrong for that period.