1776 So-Called Dollar HK-856, Continental Dollar Lead - Restrike of 1876

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Description

Lead is the softest of the metals in which Professor Dickeson struck his copy of the Continental dollar for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and HK-856 is a thin piece, slightly more than 2 mm thick. Dickeson, a doctor turned student of antiquities who wrote the American Numismatic Manual in 1859, belonged to a group of nineteenth-century makers of copies of early American coins that Hibler and Kappen also name as including John Adams Bolen, Thomas Wyatt, C. Wyllys Betts, William Idler and Alfred S. Robinson. The design is dated 1776. Its motto, "Mind Your Business," is a Franklin rewording of an English motto, "Begone About Your Business," and the linked circles on the reverse stand for the union of the thirteen states. The goldine Bashlow restrike from the same dies is HK-856a.

Cross References

HK-856; PCGS #643602