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<p>[QUOTE="coloradotokens, post: 513721, member: 17153"]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Hobo,</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">There are several publications about Lesher Dollars out there, Adna did write an article in the Feb. 1978 Numismatist which I find very helpful. The same article is on the ANA's website, I believe this is the story you are talking about. I was also very sad to hear about Adna but I was very happy to have seen and spoke with Adna only day’s before his passing. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">There are two Lesher articles that I think you would enjoy being a story that Farren Zerbe wrote in the American Journal of Numismatics in 1914, and a short story written by Dr. Philip W. Whitely entitled The Lesher Story. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">One interesting point to look for while reading and learning about Lesher is the issue about the patent numbers for his medals. I can not find out the accurate story regarding these numbers, because records have been a skewed. There are four different patent numbers issued for the Lesher Dollars and the patent number on the copy document from the US patent office differs from the actual number stuck in the medals themselves. I spoke with Adna about this issue and we both are confused, I think I remember Adna saying that one of the numbers is registered as an old vacuum. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">The story of Lesher is a very interesting one; I have been doing research on this issue for the last 2+ years, trying to find information that is not easily found. Good luck, if you have any questions please let me know also if you happen to find any new information or have theory’s of your own.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="coloradotokens, post: 513721, member: 17153"][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hobo,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]There are several publications about Lesher Dollars out there, Adna did write an article in the Feb. 1978 Numismatist which I find very helpful. The same article is on the ANA's website, I believe this is the story you are talking about. I was also very sad to hear about Adna but I was very happy to have seen and spoke with Adna only day’s before his passing. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]There are two Lesher articles that I think you would enjoy being a story that Farren Zerbe wrote in the American Journal of Numismatics in 1914, and a short story written by Dr. Philip W. Whitely entitled The Lesher Story. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]One interesting point to look for while reading and learning about Lesher is the issue about the patent numbers for his medals. I can not find out the accurate story regarding these numbers, because records have been a skewed. There are four different patent numbers issued for the Lesher Dollars and the patent number on the copy document from the US patent office differs from the actual number stuck in the medals themselves. I spoke with Adna about this issue and we both are confused, I think I remember Adna saying that one of the numbers is registered as an old vacuum. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The story of Lesher is a very interesting one; I have been doing research on this issue for the last 2+ years, trying to find information that is not easily found. Good luck, if you have any questions please let me know also if you happen to find any new information or have theory’s of your own.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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