1893 in Chicago, at the World's Columbian Exposition

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Isabella Quarter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_quarter

BTW......the author used my photos.

 

Only $5 to spend? Darn and I still have to eat?
I would check out all the coin dealers at the expo. Wonder what they might have been selling at that time. Can I take a Red Book with me?

 

Anachronism.........but 5 bucks, and an Isabella purchased, will leave a lot left over for eatin'.

At least back in dem times. Wonder what they had? Wasn't burgers and fries, that I know.

 

You and I are of one mind.

 

But they were charging a dollar for those quarters at the expo. I'm going shopping for an old dollar coin.

 

I'm going to look for an 1893-S Morgan

 

I would buy a ticket to see "Little Egypt" perform.

I understand it was quite a show.

 

I was just going to type I'd take the $5 to the SF Mint and walk out with five of those. Funny!

 

Great minds think alike, Eddie!

 

I guess! That proves it.

 

Don't I wish...

But OK, supposing I was stuck there. I'd bring my camera and buy film and take pictures. That was some event!

 

We need pictures.

 

I'm going to Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and then across town to the AHA convention to hear Frederick Jackson Turner deliver his paper introducing the Frontier Thesis

 

For those of you thinks about going to the S Mint instead of Chicago, you better review the documents in the national archives first to make sure when the coins would be available, otherwise you might make the trip for nothing. You need to know when they were struck and when they were delivered to the cashier.