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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25519842, member: 101855&quot;]A lot of these coins were stored on the islands where it is humid. Therefore they frequently are toned. The Dole Pineapple Company had a significant hoard of them which was partially sold at auction over 25 years ago. The auction catalog had one piece after another. I think that were a couple hundred of them. Overall I think that there were about 1,500 pieces in the hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>The remarkable thing is that a bill got through Congress to authorize this coin. Hawaii was not even a state in 1928. If you thumb through the commemorative section in the Red Book, you will see lots of commemorative coins for cities and towns in New York State. The reason is New York had the largest delegation in Congress, and those guys had a lot of clout.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hawaiian has long been an expensive coin. The issue price was $2 at a time when commemoratives frequently sold for $1.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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