1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-1016, Trade Mark Applied
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $84,000
- Sold
- Grade
- MS64 NGC
- Auction house
- Kagin's Henderson-Marchase Collection
Description
This Lesher piece is the trademark type, which NGC lists as HK-1016, Zerbe-17, dated 1900. Joseph W. Lesher (1838-1918), a mine owner of Victor, Colorado, who had backed William Jennings Bryan's free silver campaigns, issued numbered eight-sided silver pieces in 1900 and 1901. He called them referendum souvenirs: holders were free to accept or refuse them, and the octagonal shape kept them apart from federal coinage (Collectors Universe essay, 2017). They are 950 thousandths silver, the rest copper (same essay; APMEX, search). Collectors number them by Hibler-Kappen's so-called dollar catalogue (HK) and by Farran Zerbe's list (Z), as NGC does. The 1900 pieces are 35 mm across and weigh 480 grains, one troy ounce (Collectors Universe essay). Catalogue numbers: HK-1016, Zerbe-17. PCGS number 19004.
Cross References
HK-1016; Zerbe-17
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