CohibaCris

BTW, through reading my Red Book, I would offer a clarification to #2.

Silver dollars were not minted from 1904 to 1921 due to lack of demand. The 'buzzard' dollar was like locusts, and were so plentiful it was lunacy to mint more until the Pittman act wiped out a good number of them.

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joecoin

The only problem with Lafayette is, he was not a President of the USA.

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The Lafayette dollar also has Washington on the coin. It is the first president portrait authorized on a US coin.


Kudos to Jody for such a good trivia.

Noobgw

Thanks for the trivia, I learned quite a bit on that one

joecoin

Good job.

Look, there i go jumping to conclusions again.

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jody526

Thanks to everybody that worked so hard on trying to come up with the right answer.

The commemorative Lafayette silver dollar of 1900 was issued in conjunction with the erection of an equestrian statue of Lafayette in Paris during the Exposition of 1900.
Both the statue and the enabling coin were an expression of gratitude for Lafayette"s contribution to the rebel cause during the American War for Independance.
It is numismatically significant in being the first U.S. commemoritive coin of one dollar denomination, and the first authorized U.S. coin to bear the poitrait of one of our presidents (Washington).
The coin was sold by the Lafayette Memorial Commission for $2.00 each and the profits, augmented by contributions ($50,000) of American school children, paid for the erection of the statue.

GunLocators

Cool I got it right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!