From the historic gold rush district of Virginia, this is an important historical nugget. It has a unique matrix and color combination that helps to identify it (per John Barlow). It is illustrated in the 1998 book on his collection in his important chapter on golds (page 199). It then disappeared from the market entirely since 1998, so far as I know, while in the collection of historic USA minerals of Russ Behnke, and then another private collection. In the Barlow Book illustration, it shows the photo but the mass is less by a gram (presumably a measuring error). It weighs nearly 4 troy ounces - an important size for gold from Virginia! The book notes that Barlow obtained it at the time (1980s-90s) from a friend as follows: formerly in the collection of geologist Jack Baragwanath, husband of the famous Neysa McMein of the Algonquin Roundtable, via his daughter. It comes from an area noted for gold from the early 1800s, referred to as "the old classic" vein or zone, and you can read more about it in articles on the Virginia gold rush (for example this excellent article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/10/15/miners-tempted-by-veins-of-gold/6591dc93-dd34-4eaf-a9d5-81c47a4c75f8/). From this article by the Washington Post, we quote a fascinating bit of trivia from the article "Miners Tempted by Veins of Gold" by Eugene Sheel, October 15, 2000: "Gold was found then--and can be found now--in a 150-mile strip, 10 to 15 miles wide, extending from Appomattox County in Virginia northward to Frederick and Montgomery counties in Maryland. That strip is the northern arm of a 650-mile mineral-bearing belt ending in southern Alabama. The gold veins parallel the Appalachian Mountains, and beneath the surface they ripple like waves, often coming within a few feet of the Earth's surface--as they do in lower Fauquier. With 19 mines in a three-mile radius, Fauquier was one of the three top gold-producing counties in Virginia; the other two, Culpeper and Orange, are to Fauquier's south. Although there is no accurate count of the amount of gold extracted from Fauquier mines, I estimate that it was about 5 percent to 8 percent of Virginia's production, worth about $3.3 million from 1829 through 1934, when production had waned--equivalent to about $60 million today." 122.54 g.