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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 2471467, member: 5036&quot;]Was at the coin shop, had just stopped in to see if there was anything new. It seems the summer months are slow and the pickings get slim, so I try to stretch out my visits further apart in hopes that something will have turned up. So I walk in, say hello to the owner and start browsing the case.&nbsp; A closed token medal case with a label from an old time dial a letter label maker is stuck to the outside that said Apollo Soyuz. </p><p>I inquired, the owner told me it was some silver thing...1.7oz of bullion. I asked to see it, and opened it up. It didn&#039;t say Apollo or Soyuz or anything related. What I saw was this. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]520047[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]520048[/ATTACH] </p><p>I thought perhaps it was something older than apollo and I remembered Bryan in the election of 1896 going on about the silver standard and silverbugs, etc. I took a chance, asked for a price. The owner took it out, looked at it again, weighed it and upped the price, not significantly from the bullion price for what he figured was 53.3g. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once I got it home I started my research. turns out this is a So Called Dollar (HK-780) struck by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Silversmiths in 1896 for the William Jennings Bryan presidential campaign showing the difference in a silver dollar struck by the government and the gold dollar in use at the time. Pretty rare, and all the completed listing I can find on Heritage and others show that this commands well beyond bullion value. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. In nine lines, first and last curved, others straight, A Government Dollar Contains / 412 1/2 Grains / Coin Silver 900/1000 Fine / This Piece Contains / 823 Grains Coin Silver / In Value the Equivalent of / One Gold Dollar / Sept. 16th 1896. / Gorham Mfg. Co., Silversmiths. No rim.</p><p>Rev. On rim of cartwheel, which springs from bottom edge, Size of Government Dollar Containing 412 1/2 Grains of Silver 900/1000 Fine; no rim.</p><p>&nbsp;Silver. 52mm. Schornstein 6. R-5 Rating.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a lucky day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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