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The discovery of gold in Georgia sparked the opening ef a U.S. Mint in Dahlonega, GA, in 1838. The Mint was opened to process locally mined gold into spendable currency. Production was always low, yet it continued to operate until 1861, when Confederate forces seized the building at the outset of the Civil War. Starting in the 1970s, J. Gordon Farmer, an avid collector of these coins, began mining for gold in Lincolnton, GA, a little southeast of the Dahlonega area. By the late 1980s, Farmer's mining had produced over 200 ounces of gold. These nuggets and dust are a tangible link to the storied gold coins struck at the Dahlonega, Georgia.