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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2560976, member: 81887&quot;]I just checked my Krause, and your math checks out.&nbsp; Even careful historical authors can make mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me of the classic John Wayne movie &quot;Rio Bravo&quot;.&nbsp; The plot involves hired killers coming into the tiny frontier town where John Wayne is sheriff, in order to kill an important witness before he can be transferred to the custody of a Federal Marshal.&nbsp; We learn that the killers are being paid $50 each, and a key scene involves a $50 gold coin being found on a dead shooter&#039;s body, proving that he was one of the hired killers.&nbsp; The coin isn&#039;t shown clearly, but appears to be round and much bigger in diameter than a silver dollar.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t seem to match any actual coin of the time period, but I guess they needed something more dramatic than finding two double eagles and one eagle.&nbsp; (The only $50 coins I know of from the 19th century West were some of the privately minted coins, none of which looked like the practically teacup-saucer sized thing shown in the movie.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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