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All of the J.S. Ormsby & Co. gold coins are exceedingly rare. The 5 Dollars denomination appears to be represented by only two examples, if that:
1. Reeded Edge. - Frank Smith - Waldo Newcomer - F.C.C. Boyd - Josiah Lilly - National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. First published in the The Numismatist, July 1911, p. 248.
2. Plain Edge. Jacob B. Moore, Sr. - Jacob B. Moore, Jr. - Edgar H. Adams ("in conjunction with J.W. Scott"). A plain edge example is cited in the Guidebook, but neither Breen nor Kagin address the edge treatment of any of the Ormsby gold pieces. The Guidebook citation may be based on Adams (1913), where the author recounts the discovery of the previously unknown $5 denomination, which he described and listed as having a plain edge. Adams purchased the coin from Jacob B. Moore, Jr., who had owned the coin since 1849. The plate illustration in Adams is demonstrably different from the Reeded Edge example listed above (it lacks the cud of raised metal at the base of the obverse, and the reverse rim is complete, unlike that on the Reeded Edge example). If this is a separate coin, then Breen's pedigree chain incorrectly connects the two and the earlier pedigree of the Reeded Edge becomes unknown.
Sources and/or recommended reading: "The Standard Catalogue of United States Coins, 18th Edition" by Wayte Raymond
"Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins" by Walter Breen
"Private Gold Coins and Patterns of the United States" by Don Kagin
"Private gold coinage of California, 1849-55, its history and its issues" by Edgar H. Adams