Dollar - Dana Bickford of New York City

Features

Location United States
Type Unclassified exonumia › Miscellaneous token
Year 1897
Currency United States - So-called Dollars
Composition Bimetallic: brass centre in aluminium ring
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
122097
References HK# 834
Harold E. Hibler, Charles V. Kappen ; 2008. So-Called Dollars : an Illustrated Standard Catalog with Valuations (2nd edition). Coin & Currency Institute, Clifton, New Jersey, United States.

Obverse

Within circular center, Dollar in straight line, Republican in curved line above and Internat.l., curved, below; from circular center to border, five dashes, representing silver bars; beginning in outer border, four lines, making almost complete circles,

Script: Latin

Lettering: This Combination Coin Will When Adopted be Good in All Nations / Heal All Differences Between Gold & Silver Men / and Fully Settle All Financial Questions / Approved by All Good Business Men

Reverse

Same center inscription; between outer circle and beaded border

Script: Latin

Lettering: Here is Shown the Value of Our Dollar in the Coin of Different Nations of the World.; between outer and inner circles, eight links contain Sterling 4.2 Francs 5.20 Kronen 3.80 Gulden 2.8 Marken 4.16 Guilder 2.50 Rouble 9.65 Yen 1.1; between inner circle and center, Invented and Protected by Dana Bickford

Comments

1897 Bickford Dollar HK-834. Aluminum, brass center. Dana Bickford of New York City, upon returning from a visit to Europe, where he experienced the then-usual difficulty in exchanging money, submitted to Mint Director Dr. Henry Linderman several designs for a token to promote universal exchange rates among major currencies of the world to be standardized for gold and silver. This variety displays a mound on the lower obverse that reads GOLD AND SILVER. Listed in the Hibler-Kappen reference as "very rare," 21 to 50 pieces known

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1897 

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