1900 Bryan Dollar HK-783, Gorham, S-12 Reeded Edge
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HK-783 is Gorham Manufacturing Company's 1900 piece on the silver question, the size and weight of a regular silver dollar and struck in silver with a reeded edge. The lettered obverse explains that a government dollar holds 412 1/2 grains of silver nine-tenths fine and that the metal in such a coin fetched 48 cents on July 5, 1900. The reverse sets that market figure against the 100 cents the same silver would represent under free coinage at sixteen to one, and ends with a question mark. It was made during William Jennings Bryan's second campaign for free silver. A version with a raised rim is HK-784, and a few pieces were stamped by the Los Angeles firm Montgomery Bros (HK-1014). Thomas L. Elder later modeled his 1908 Taft pieces on this design. Schornstein 12. Silver, 38 mm.
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