1897 HK-834, Bickford Dollar Aluminum, Bronze Center Dollar

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Description

On HK-834 the five dashes of Bickford's first obverse are replaced by a mound lettered "Gold / and / Silver," a small picture of the two metals his international dollar was meant to reconcile. The center still reads Republican, Dollar and Internat.l. The reverse is the eight-link die of HK-833, each link pairing a figure with a currency: 4.2 sterling, 5.20 francs, 3.80 kronen, 2.8 gulden, 4.16 marken, 2.50 guilder, 9.65 roubles and 1.1 yen, inside the claim "Here is Shown the Value of Our Dollar." This one is aluminum with bronze center, 28 mm, dated by Hibler and Kappen to 1897, when Dana Bickford of New York issued his eight patterns. The same pairing with a brass center is HK-835.

Cross References

HK-834; PCGS #643572