Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DeaconBenjamin2

Well, I haven’t looked up the mintage figures. A few hundred thousand maybe? I didn’t mean to be persnickety, lol.


60 posted on 05/29/2007 8:07:48 PM PDT by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies ]


To: Freedom4US
No offense taken. The first coinage from the US mint was issued in 1792. The Guidebook of United States Coins (Yeoman, 1997) states that there were some dollar-sized "Continental Currency" coins minted in pewter, brass, and silver. It is not known who manufactured the coins.

No prices are offered for one variety of silver coin (which suggests that none are known), only one price is presented ($95,000 for an example in fine condition) for the other variety of silver coin, which suggests that the copies that are known are all in fine condition. However many were minted, it appears that very few exist today.

By contrast, a 1794 silver dollar (the first issued by the US mint) in fine condition is worth $16,000; there were a total of 1,758 1794 silver dollars minted. There were 160,295 minted in 1795; an example in fine condition was worth $1200-1500.

61 posted on 05/29/2007 8:23:28 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson