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Christopher Bechtler
Christopher (alias Christian) Bechtler (1782–1843) was a German-born American goldsmith and watchmaker. He became rich and famous through an American gold rush based on his concept of producing defined gold dollars, the Bechtler Dollars, in the early 1830s and by 1840, before the US government itself started to produce gold dollars in 1849.〔(Coin Community: Gold Dollar Liberty Head Type 1 History ). Retrieved September 9, 2006.〕
== Life ==
Bechtler was born in Pforzheim, Margraviate of Baden. In 1767 Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, allowed watch manufacturing in Pforzheim and started a technical school. The latter gave ground to further educational institutions and is now the Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule Pforzheim (Jewelers and Watchmakers School of Pforzheim); Bechtler was trained there. Around 1820, Bechtler spotted small gold traces in Stubensand, an early household abrasive. In 1823 he requested a mining concession and tried placer mining for gold in the late triassic Stubensandstein around neighboring Sternenfels where the Stubensand was produced. The amount of gold found was not satisfactory, but Bechtler asked for a Ducal Badensian Patent for his gold washing machine in 1819.〔(Goldrush in Sternenfels 1818 )〕
In 1829 Bechtler and his family, his wife, two sons and a nephew, emigrated to the United States. In 1830 he opened a watchmaker store in Philadelphia, the site of the first US Mint, but he quickly went further to North Carolina during one of the early gold rushes.
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