NumisMysteries: Fascinating Tales of the King of Coins, the 1804 Silver Dollar

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Fascinating Tales of the King of Coins, the 1804 Silver Dollar

This feature story gathers up a great many tales, true and false, regarding the strange history of the 1804 silver dollar -- twice restruck in later years and often faked. Details here.

No comments:

Post a Comment

What's It All About?

Here you'll find interesting news as well as my reviews of books dealing with numismatic mysteries and curiosities. Also, links to general interest books in the field providing helpful information.

Soon I intend to add links to informative sites.

My background is mostly in magazine feature writing for national markets although I've played all over the journalistic field. I wrote a fairly influential Washington "insider" column in the Reagan era. I've edited a great many publications of various sorts in fields ranging from antiques to national security.

You'll find fifty or so of my columns on literary fakes and folly on Joey Skaggs' web site, http://artoftheprank.com/

As you will learn if visiting my Etsy shop, I specialize in numismatic images. If I can help in any way with your coin, medal or token collecting needs, drop me a note: WJElvin@GMail.Com