[hinckley buzzard]

“Make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” In the 1800s following gold strikes, California issued gold coin. You can buy them from a coin auction if you’re interested; but they were legal money in their day. Probably still are.

[Leaning Right]

> In the 1800s following gold strikes, California issued gold coin. <

I found that interesting. So I just did a quick search. From what I can tell, those gold coins were issued in California, but not by California.

Evidently, private companies were issuing coins with stated values. Like a $5 coin if they contained $5 worth of gold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_coinage