Make sure you watch to the very end! A few chances to win/find/buy the coins!! Links all below! BOOK Amazon: www.amazon.com/Ghost-Town-Living-Purpose-Chasing/dp/0593578449/ Barnes & Noble (Signed Copies!): bit.ly/3QrzoYb BooksAMillion: bit.ly/3tNaUks BookShop.Org: bit.ly/3rZb5bN COINS FREE - enter to win one of the silver coins (and a free night at the American Hotel) here: kingsumo.com/g/wl3sio/win-a-cerro-gordo-silver-coin-1-night-at-the-american-hotel Buy one of the coins to help support the town here: store.cerrogordomines.com/products/silver-cerro-gordo-store-coin-hotel-certificate store.cerrogordomines.com/products/copper-silver-gordo-store-coin-numbered-to-25

Thanks for having me out, It was a great experience! Just published my side of the video if anyone is interested!

i appreciate that you didnt stop at simply exclaiming about finding old silver from the town then jumping back into the process of making your own but you intentionally reflected on the hard and depraved history of debt bondage. That is a testament to the quality of your content. IMO.

“🎶 I haul 16 tons, and what do I get? Another day older and deeper in debt! If you see St Peter tell him I can’t go…cuz I owe my soul to the company store.” Am I the only one with this stuck in my head now?😂

Mining was a horrible, dirty business, so unhealthy. Your mining and reproducing the original silver coins is a true labor of love! KUDOS! 👏👏👏

Hard to believe it's been four years. It is crazy how I watched the first video with all the snow.bring from canada and 12 ft. Snow drift is a normal experience. You have become a different person. You are this mountain. You are the strengths, calmness, and showing the beauty. Thank you

This made me realize why the hills around Cerro Gordo have no trees. They were cut down for fire wood. With that in mind have you ever thought of a rewilding project to introduce trees nack around town? There's a channel called "Mossy Earth" that does this very thing. They may know people who would be willing to help, if you ever choose to try. And Im sure you could get a weekend event where people can help spread seedlings.

My wife and myself have watched from the beginning. We are so proud of what you have done. Being from Colorado, we hope to someday soon visit your "ghost town". Thank you for sharing your joy and love. We wish you only the best and success in your quest.

Shows how hard the job was up there, from mining to silver 🥈. Well done.

I just purchased a coin. I am honestly very excited to be able to come out and stay at the hotel, when it’s finished. What an amazing adventure. I’ve been able to live vicariously through you all, through this awesome adventure you’re having. I’ve always dreamt of doing this exact same thing, since I was a kid. I can’t wait to come up and experience the entire area.

Wow those went fast! Well at least I have my copy of the book coming can't wait to read it! Really great video. My G gradfater was a miner in Randsburg in the late 1890s and I have heard many stories from my grand mother about growing up in a mining town and this video really showed the hard work and conditions the miners had to deal with to pull out just that small amount of silver. Incredible. Thanks.

I love the sound of the silver coins, it is like glitter but in sound.

"Sixteen Tons" now playing in my mind.

It’s really beautiful how much love you have not only for cerro gordo but for your subscribers as well. You respond to more people in a single video, than a lot of influencers that have the same subscriber count do, in a month. It’s an honor and a privilege to have been with you since the beginning. The silver came out beautiful, what a dream life, truly a dream life. I envy you Brent. See you next time 😇✌️✌️

thanks for all the videos you put out I love what you are doing with the mine I was once a under ground nickle and gold miner in Western Australia I love watching you go under ground brings back memories of my days as a miner

I love hearing from you. It's so refreshing to hear about something fun!

Don’t forget to also say that you narrated the Audiobook!!! It’s on Audible and I’m so excited to hear it in your own voice!❤

I got my bit of Cerro Gordo Galena yesterday for pre-ordering your book! Thank you Brent.

This is by far one of the coolest coin making videos I have ever seen. Amazing job guys, kudos!

Such great story-telling. Very much looking forward to receiving your book!

Insane the amount of work those old timers had to go through.. just for that shiny stuff.. been watching since the beginning awesome watching the town come back to life with just a vision and hard work. Great job!.

This was seriously fun to watch from beginning to end. Keep up the great work!

Get a sturdy bucket/box and rope and then drag the bucket up and down the ramp next to the ladder. Uhm, you're expected to dig ore, not read and play card games during your 12 hour shift. For the front of your shop, put some doors on hinges attached to the top so you can then lift them up, put posts under each corner and thus not only keep out the elements when they're closed, but give you awnings which provide you with extra shaded workspace. The Romans also used drop presses for their coins. Score yourself a smaller electric furnace with a removable crucible - that'll allow for cleaner pours into the mold, also, get that mold heated up before pouring, not just to avoid potential cracking of the graphite, but also to allow the silver to cool without all of those bubbles and imperfections you got. All said, good video and good haul - I pour coins myself but did enjoy seeing you stamp them out.

So beyond belief, a great adventure shared with all of us!!! Please keep up your amazing efforts, work, and dedication to your historic mission to preserve this town!

Brett, you have given us four years of memories to carry around, and now a coin too ! I can no longer do what I once loved to do, but I sure love creating new memories through your camera lens. Thank you for doing this for me and for everyone.

Something about watching your channel is just so peaceful .. been watching for few years now and will continue for as long as i can !

my wife and I have watched you and your adventures since day 1. You have worked your butt off over the last 4 plus years to really do something cool with cerro gordo. I am 75 and all busted up, so there is no way I could go through the adventure that you are. Thanks for letting us come along with you with all of your fun doings. I am going to get your book because it sounds like a great read. Good luck to you on all you are doing up there as we will keep watching. Thanks for the great adventure. Mike and Joy

Awesome to see the process, watching from the other side of the globe but always a blast to see history coming back to life

I was lucky enough to get a Cerro Gordo silver necklace and now I get to have a silver coin. Super excited!

16:58 That right there is the moment of moments for you. A true prospector having a little oopsie and discovering as you go. 4 years culminating to a moment of creation and exploration. Thanks for so many great videos and adventures, dude.

I like your idea of recreating a glimpse of how things were in the past of Cerro Gordo.

As an avid viewer of your show from stumbling upon your first upload, hoping you and your truck would survive the snow to seeing you mint your own coins is truly an inspiration! Anything is doable if we just set our minds to it! Dreams are truly obtainable! ❤❤

Well that mini explosion was exciting. Hey that shop overhang not for nothing. For many months you have been building up your shop for cutting rocks etc. It will still be a good spot for what you want. Rolling doors might be nice. The coins are beautiful.

thanks for sharing your adventure. I am 72 years old and sure wish I was able to join you there. very interesting part of history.

I received my piece of Galena today in the mail!! Thank you! I have been looking forward to getting it since I pre ordered last year and can't wait to read the book. The galena is so shiny! You don't realize how shiny it is until you actually see it in person. Can only imagine how it looks in the mine when you see a whole wall of this stuff. Loved the video - how on earth did they figure out all that chemistry to refine silver 1,000s of years ago? Must have been a lot of trial and error!

Awesome episode guys! Nick's restoration turned out amazing, and your coins turned out Top Notch! Huge Kudos to you all for the idea and the work involved in the making of this one.. Masterfully done!

So cool to see the entire process Brent. Can’t wait to get the book! Keep up the awesome work!

Thank you for the last four years of sharing your Cerro Gordo adventure.

Awesome video! Those coins are so so beautiful and so special! They are priceless for intents and purposes! I will be purchasing your book btw. You're truly amazing Brent! 👌🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😎❤️

OMG, I don't know if that explosion scared you but it did me and I'm just watching the video

Wow, what a story. From start to finish, and Nick was very kind to do this one. You are a true story teller sir.

This was a fun combination of a few things that interest me, Ghost towns, silver coins, and smelting. Great watch at the end of a long day. Cant wait for more.

I liked how you explained scrip and how it worked, that's one thing in mining history that's often overlooked or forgotten despite the huge impact it had in mining communities. Very cool that you did your own 12hr shift in the mine! Seeing that helped bring to life all the mining books/stories I've read

Beautiful silver, wow! & SO interesting to see the entire process!!!

all the energy it took and cost to make that silver shows how hard it is to mine and how undervalued it is on purpose by economics

Hello Brent! I've been watching your channel since the very beginning, just over 4 years ago! I must say, after watching your ups and downs , that I'm soooo proud of you to have regained her to the state that she's in! Absolutely fabulous work, my darling! Claire, Berlin, Germany ❤

That’s amazing content I’ve been watching for a couple years now! Look forward to seeing more I’ve been to a few old ghost towns here in southern Utah and have found coins and trade tokens in the past. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Love watching all your videos! Keep up the good work Brent!❤

Another saga not (yet) put into a video is the production of the dies for punching and pressing the coins. I have seen video of the modern process, which involves sculpting an enlarged (about 8 inches diameter) version of each side of the coin, reducing it with a 3-d pantagraph, and finally milling the die out of tool steel, which is then hardened and polished into the press tools as shown here. Yours were apparently engraved at final scale; a monumental task. I'm about 50 years past being able to live, let alone walk around at over 8000 feet, so I will not be visiting. Thank you for the whole series of videos, which have made it possible for me to enjoy the town and its mines.

As a numismatic collector i really enjoied watching this video. I just enjoy your content in general

wtf tf. Already sold out?! This is awesome, I'm glad this is being funded :)

We appreciate everything you do

Thanks for your time and ya I have watched since the start. I have enjoyed traveling back in time and seeing a part of history, wish I lived closer I would take on that challenge, thanks man

I appreciate you giving us the history behind the silver coin! My 7 year old and I watched this video in one sitting. Now he wants to go find your book with the silver coin in it 😄

Excellent once again, nature is beautiful.

Great video , as always. I have been to Cerro Gordo countless times before you purchased it. I love the history of Calif. Gold and Silver rush indeed. Born and raised in SoCal. The passion that you have is addictive for sure. I will buy one of your books very soon...Keep your passion going my friend...

As a new numismatist that's loved every second of it I LOVE this video! You are incredible.

You are the most amazing man! No one could do what you are doing there. You sir, are Cerro Gordo, heart and soul. You were destined to be there, Cerro Gordo has captured your soul, and you are now one with the town. Congratulations, God bless you.❤

Pretty awesome coins. Love the update. The hotel looks like it's boarded up and ready for work. Thanks for sharing.

We haven't missed one of your video vlogs and we pre-ordered both the hard back book as well as the audio book. Gosh, will March 19th ever get here!😂. Oh, and this episode on the coin making was so interesting! Thank you

Congratulations on finishing the Off Road games on Thursday. I enjoyed watching you tackle the obstacles.

That coin is an absolute amazing find. It's priceless

Looks like we’re going back to California. You can’t just say “here’s a coin, buy one and stay at the hotel” and not expect me to immediately buy one. This is going to be an AH MAZING excuse to take a vacation. At some point. Some day. Happy book release week!

Woke up at 5am on a trip to Tokyo and found this was playing. Long time follower. Congrats on finally minting your coins. Native Californian now living in Seattle. Spent a lot of time in the Sierras and drove past on the 395 many many times. I hope to get up there to Cerro Gordo sometime. All the best Brent. Thanks for the amazing stories.

I bought your book for my Kindle and CANNOT wait to start reading it! Thank you for everything you do. I truly love your channel and have been watching since you started it. Visiting Cerro Gordo is on my Bucket List. 🥰

I'm still with you on this journey and how far you have come pretty cool

You sir what you are actually doing you're taking your whole audience back how many years 160 years maybe, I've been watching you for a good little while you're very entertaining to all of us I'm sure and what you have decided to do is absolutely amazing nobody ever ever has done what you're doing right now and we all know this already what you are doing is amazing I'm sure there might be a better word but that's the best I can come up with a dude I'm seriously documenting the lives of people from decades ago and all I can say is keep going man do not even stop in stay cool that's all you got to do

I pre-ordered your book on audible and I am very much looking forward to giving it a listen next week! It feels mad to me that I found your videos whilst locked down in 2020 and now you are a bonafide mountain man!

What! A handmade coin from Cerro Gordo? Take my money! I got one of each. The Silver and the Copper. I tad above spot but the story is everything. I have been following this journey since day one. It's been quite the ride for us couch cowboys, I can't even imagine living it everyday. You my friend are the true American hero. Full of adventure and discovery and hard work. Thank you.

What an amazing process!! Thank you for sharing the adventure!!

I love this!

That was a long way down but at least it was the bucket and not you take care and have a safe week.🇺🇲🤠🙌🇺🇲

Those coins are awesome ⭐ Well done, everyone! Maybe put one coin into a time capsule with a few pictures of you guys producing it?

Those coins are worth way more than just their weight in precious metal. Awesome preservation!! Bravo!

I explore mines vicariously through these vids, cuz theres NO WAY my chicken a** is getting into one IRL!🤭

Hope everybody’s having a good day that sounds old

10/10 narration and explanation too. I don't think anyone could have explained that more concisely. It's so satisfying to listen to you form your sentences with absolute precision and intent.

God this is just so cool. I think this whole experience watching you has been so great! Keep up the great work my dude!!!

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What a fantastic video! Thank you for showing us how it was.

Fascinating episode. Love how you hid a copy of your book and a coin. Great idea.

You’re keeping history alive & living the dream. Keep up the good work.

Wow, that’s so cool & amazing, I wish I could get one of those coins but I'm in Australia but that’s still such a great achievement for your content to have affected & changed a life on the other side of the world, thank you for your content & that is just, if not more as valuable as one of those coins, keep up the great work, thanks.

everybody was trying to make money from home, this man actually did it. amazing to watch since the pandemic and see your progress. congrats on any and all success, you've earned it!

This is my favorite video yet, this is SO cool! I wish I could get one of these. Absolutely amazing

You’re an amazing TEACHER! To Me and All. You’ve brought history Alive 👏🏼. Thank you !

I just pre-ordered your book from Audible. I can’t wait to hear your voice narrating the book since I WATCHED you doing it in the depths and darkness of your mine. I’ve been enthralled by your exuberance and dedication to Ghost Town and shared in your grief when the hotel burned down. I first heard of Cerro Gordo watching Zak and Aaron from Ghost Adventures investigating the haunted hotel. Wow, that’s some crazy history and the hits just keep on coming. I intend to purchase one of the coins if I can handle the price. I’d like to leave the hotel coupon to my granddaughter to instill my sense of adventure in her…. She’s already showing signs. lol. Wishing you continued luck and blessings as you resurrect CG!

Hey Brent, I've been watching your journey since the beginning. Love your videos and what you're trying to accomplish. Very inspiring! Can't wait to read the book 😊

I love your videos and what you are creating in Cerro Gordo. It’s amazing to see all you are doing and how well you honor those people that worked so hard back in the day! 😊

You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store Talking about the company stored at the beginning reminded me of this tune by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Lovely to see you now creating the once forgotten about Cerro Gordo currency. Seeing your journey so far has been mesmerizing, you've even come into contact with many many other youtubers i've followed for awhile and it's been awesome to see the cross overs. Can't wait to see what is next.

Nice work Brent, your videos and story's are awesome!

Incredible, after 4 years you're still making amazing new discoveries.

I just preordered your book. I’ve been following you since day one. It is a dream of mine to visit one day and say thank you, thank you so very much. You move my soul. Fire on the mountain and all that….

I enjoyed every minute of this journey. Thank you so much!

Good luck to everyone able to go search! Great video Brent!

Cool idea a lot better than some of the ways other channels have tried to raise funds. I wish you the best.

Man, I wish one in 1000 channels on KZfaq were half as good as this one. You are a film maker sir!

Finally preordered the book! Looking forward to reading it!

This was one of my favor episodes thank you for sharing it with us

Great job on this video!