Five unmounted micros reflect not only microscopic native gold in quartz, but significant mineralogical history. The five specimens were collected at one of the numerous small gold mining operations active in the late 1800's and early 1900's at Monroe in Union County, North Carolina. The specimens were trimmed, packaged, and presumably collected by the late Bill Yost of Philadelphia, a 1999 inductee into the Micromounters Hall of Fame. One of his legacies was the internationally popular Yost Trimmer he invented and then manufactured for use on small specimens. We acquired the above pictured  box with its contents at auction during the 2025 Desautels Micromount Symposium in Baltimore.  The box as shown  in the first two photographs contains the five specimens of native gold in quartz. The three smallest of these specimens are encased in a gelatin capsule between two slightly larger pieces as shown in the second image. Each of these three appear as photomicrographs  in our 3rd, 4th, and 5th images.  Notably, every one of these three encapsuled  specimens shows more gold than either of two larger pieces shown to the left of the capsule in the box. and pictured as a photomicrographs in the 6th and 7th images.