I'm in China where there are a lot of bogus US coins, and probably some real ones. I know the 1797 Trade Dollars (common here) are bogus, since the US did not start making those until 1873 or so. All the Draped Bust dollars I've seen here (one dealer today had five 1804) have milled edges. What about this one, which I've seen half a dozen examples of? Date 190-something on all. most or all 1906. One side has the eagle, without motto, the other has a srtanding woman (Liberty?) with a bouguet of flowers or an olive branch or something. Lettering says (roughly) One Dollar One Troy Ounce. Is that another weird forgery or some sort of dollar I've never heard of and the two reference sites I checked hadn't either?
Forgery! no silver dollars were produced during those years. Sounds like maybe they've copied a modern American Silver Eagle (a bullion coin) and put an old date on it for the tourists
to CoinTalk. Yes, but they are all in the pocket change carried by American tourists. Here, courtesy of the US Mint's website, are pictures of a genuine American Silver Eagle, complete with a legitimate date.
