Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="Artillery87, post: 24488426, member: 137755"]When Hawaii became a US territory in 1903 they offered an exchange program where these Hawaii coins could be traded for US silver coins of equal value. They were then taken and melted down. In 1904 they were demonitized completely. So that means they were only circulating for about 20 years or so. Most of the dollars were melted down from what I heard. The half dollar had a great majority melted down also. I think around half of the quarters were melted down. Not very many at all of the dimes were traded in and melted down but they are very scarce in higher grades. Alot of the people of hawaiian culture kept these coins and made trinkets out of them like jewelry, decorations, and stuff like that.[/QUOTE]