1900 Lesher Dollars
Base
About This Coin
The 1900 Lesher pieces: the first type, the two A. B. Bumstead types, the bank type and the trademark type, with and without serial numbers. 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).
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(8)
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-787, Zerbe Type 1
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-788, A.B. Bumstead Type 1
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-788a, A.B. Bumstead Type 1, No Number
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-789, A.B. Bumstead Type 2
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-789a, A.B. Bumstead Type 2, No Number
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-790, Bank Type
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-790a, Bank Type, No Number
1900 Lesher Dollar - HK-1016, Trade Mark Applied
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