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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8243271, member: 20201&quot;]<i><b>Finally Got One!</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Quite dark and a bit gloomy in appearance, but no real sign of wear that I can see. Kind of fitting for the theme.</p><p><br /></p><p>No doubt, it is original anyway. Looks at least high AU to me.</p><p>Not a lot of information is available about this TYPE 1</p><p>Who had it minted or how many were made I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1906 TYPE 1 SAN FRANCISCO</b></p><p><b>EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE</b></p><p><b>So-called Dollar.</b></p><p><b>HK-341 Brass 36mm</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451368[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451369[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>TYPE 2</b> and <b>TYPE 3</b> are completely different designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were 5 different <b>TYPE 1</b> varieties struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>HK-340 Silver, reeded edge. 36mm.</p><p>HK-340a Silver-plated.</p><p><b>HK-341 Brass.</b></p><p>HK-342 Aluminum.</p><p>HK-342a Bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparing this so-called dollar population to others it is not common at all, a bit on the scarce side and seems to be always in demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see only 9 total of all TYPE 1 varieties above are graded by <b>PCGS</b>, 3 are HK-341 and only 2 of those are MS.</p><p><br /></p><p>On <b>NGC</b> I can only find MS graded totals of 33 of this variety, HK-341, 13 are in MS.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>On the Obverse is a view of California Street</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451370[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>On the Reverse is The Ruins of City Hall</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451371[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake is 7.9</p><p><br /></p><p>Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days.</p><p>Within three days, over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks.</p><p>More than 3,000 people probably died, including ignored fatalities in Chinatown and surrounding areas of the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed.</p><p>Between 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of a population of about 410,000.</p><p>Property losses from the disaster have been estimated to be more than $400 Million in 1906 dollars.</p><p>That would be about 5 and 1/4 Billion today.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451372[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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