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ON THE TRAIL OF AN 1804 DOLLAR IMAGE
This afternoon I followed an interesting email exchange kicked off by a question from Dave Bowers.
-Editor
Dave Bowers writes: Where did this picture of an 1804 dollar come from? It illustrated a story by Stephen King in the latest issue of The New Yorker. It deals with a murder in a Dakota town in the late 19th century. A silver dollar was stolen, but there was no mention of the date on it.
Dave's son Wynn writes: I vote for this one: I think I see the same field shading and marks across the hair in line with the ribbon. The New Yorker photo cropped it.
To read the complete article, see: 1804 Class III Silver Dollar - The King of US Coins (www.the-bna.com/photo_gallery/COTW-Archive/1804-Class-III-Silver-Dollar.html) Dave writes: My gosh, I think you are right! Without the Internet this would have taken a long time! Ken Bressett writes: No question about this being the same piece that Wynn has spotted. I was just about to say it definitely is a Class III “restrike”, and most likely the Davis specimen. I believes this confirms it. Joel Orosz writes: I hereby nominate Wynn for the position of Official 1804 Dollar Photo Identifier--as soon as someone officially creates that position! Wynn writes: Give Google credit, too. I dropped my cropped picture into Google Images and it recognized it as an 1804 dollar! Of course I already knew that, so that didn't actually help, but it was impressive anyway. Then I asked Google for images of 1804 dollars and looked for the right fields.
Thanks, everyone. This was a fun diversion.
-Editor
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