Amazing replica of a gold coin  5 Dollars - Lion & Beehive Mormon Gold 1860 date perfect for your collection but also for a precious gift. This is a replica coin and quality is amazing as it can be seen from the photos and the video. The 1860 is the last year the Mormon five dollar denomination was minted; it bears a design markedly different from the two earlier Mormon five dollar issues -- those of 1849 and 1850 -- so that most Territorial gold collectors would consider it a separate subtype. A decade intervened between the coinage of the 1849-50 Mormon gold pieces and the 1860 coins, which were produced due to the discovery of gold in Colorado, purer than the California gold used to strike the earlier pieces. On the reverse of the 1860 K-6 Mormon five dollar, the variety of the present coin, the beehive symbol is combined with an eagle. DESERET ASSAY OFFICE PURE GOLD encircles the rim, with the denomination 5.D. beneath the beehive. The obverse depicts a lion reclining on a grassy plane beside a river, with HOLINESS TO THE LORD written in the Mormon alphabet and the date 1860 below. (The Deseret alphabet was developed in the mid-19th century under the direction of Brigham Young, an attempt to improve upon the inconsistent orthography of the English language.) The Don Kagin reference reports a mintage of 472 pieces of the 1860 five dollar gold. Citing Mormon mining engineer and historian Col. Joseph M. Lock, Kagin writes: "For the Mormons the coins were a success. They served greatly to increase trade in and around the Valley and enabled them to purchase goods in the states to the east, even though the coins were accepted only at a discount of 10 to 25 percent. The Mormon coins circulated at par among the Mormons themselves but were not so popular with the 'Gentiles.' "