For those reading this thread months from now when the link is dead, the article is about the Million Silver Dollar Exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. I especially like the following two parts of the article: Sigh. I was not able to attend this exhibit. I was only 7 years old at the time and would not start collecting coins for another 2 years.
1962, shoot I think my dad had just finished high school, and I was another 23 years from being a collector
No way they'd do something like that today and normal people care about it. I especially love the picture of the truck.
"An advertisement on the back inside cover of the November 1962 issue of Coins offered individual silver dollars from the exhibit, “mounted in an attractive World’s Fair holder,” for $1.95 postpaid. The limit on the bags was five bags per person (at $1,500 per bag of 1,000 silver dollars), to be shipped after the exhibit closed." They were charging only $1.50 each if you bought them in bulk back then and that included an "attractive...holder". I wonder what one of these coins today in its original holder would fetch. I also wonder how many key dates were just poured into that box by those government contractors.
Just an aside to this; In 1962, you could also go to most neighborhood banks and they would sell you a roll of silver dollars for $20. Oh!, that is 20 for $20 or $1 each. They were not the ones bagged in 1910. i.e. they had been in circulation since minted and some a lot. However, they were pretty much the same dates.
They would most likely have to melt the silver dollars and then turn it into some dishonerble image in order to grab people's attention. Then of course it would be widely distributed as "news".... "and now we have a shocking report of a giant silver statue depicting Chic-Fil-A Cow raping what appears to be a baby duck, this and more to come after the break......"
I was 9 , wonder what MM & years were in there , great story , they didn't care much about coin conservation then . rzage
