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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 514965, member: 11521"]Better start saving up your flies, Toadie. Adna Wilde estimates that a total of only 1,869 Lesher Dollars were struck and only 384 were known at the time of his article in <i>The Numismatist</i> (Feb. 1978). I'm sure a few more have been discovered since then. (The Gazette article mentioned one being found in a shoe box.) And I am sure there are a number lying around with the owners having no idea what they have.</p><p> </p><p>My local coin dealer has a Lesher Dollar. Next time I go there I'm gonna take a closer look at it and determine which variety it is.</p><p> </p><p><b>EDIT</b> - According to Adna Wilde the total number of known Lesher Dollars was 492 in 1993*. Apparently his 1978 article flushed out over 100 more examples over the next 15 years. More may have surfaced since then. With Adna Wilde gone I don't know who is keeping score now.</p><p> </p><p>* From ANA Numismatic Theatre VHS tape titled Lesher Referendum Medals with Adna G Wilde Jr (filmed at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, 1993)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 514965, member: 11521"]Better start saving up your flies, Toadie. Adna Wilde estimates that a total of only 1,869 Lesher Dollars were struck and only 384 were known at the time of his article in [I]The Numismatist[/I] (Feb. 1978). I'm sure a few more have been discovered since then. (The Gazette article mentioned one being found in a shoe box.) And I am sure there are a number lying around with the owners having no idea what they have. My local coin dealer has a Lesher Dollar. Next time I go there I'm gonna take a closer look at it and determine which variety it is. [B]EDIT[/B] - According to Adna Wilde the total number of known Lesher Dollars was 492 in 1993*. Apparently his 1978 article flushed out over 100 more examples over the next 15 years. More may have surfaced since then. With Adna Wilde gone I don't know who is keeping score now. * From ANA Numismatic Theatre VHS tape titled Lesher Referendum Medals with Adna G Wilde Jr (filmed at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, 1993)[/QUOTE]
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