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<p>[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8391515, member: 116145"]So, I've gotten a bit of a "bug" as it were, perhaps a "gold bug" (that's what the bug pin pictured below is called, ha ha ha, about Bryan Money, as you can see. These pieces were struck in the context of William Jennings Bryan losing presidential campaigns against McKinley in 1896 and 1900. The issue these highlight is that Bryan wanted the US to move off of a strict gold standard to using both gold and silver to guarantee our currency. He lost. I'm happy I've even got a couple of the "United Snakes of America" pieces (the reverse of which, instead of sardonically asserting it is One Dime, goes even more sarcastic with "One Dam" as in, "Frankly my dear, I don't give one...." Two of my larger silver pieces by Gorham silver smiths include a silver dollar comparison wheel on the back - to show the difference between how much silver was actually in a silver dollar at the time and how much would be required in 1896 to match the actual gold value in a gold dollar. I included the Morgan Dollar for slab size comparison and the dwhiz dollar for fun. These 2 NGC slabs are my largest and I think they're neat.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489081[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1489082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1489084[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8391515, member: 116145"]So, I've gotten a bit of a "bug" as it were, perhaps a "gold bug" (that's what the bug pin pictured below is called, ha ha ha, about Bryan Money, as you can see. These pieces were struck in the context of William Jennings Bryan losing presidential campaigns against McKinley in 1896 and 1900. The issue these highlight is that Bryan wanted the US to move off of a strict gold standard to using both gold and silver to guarantee our currency. He lost. I'm happy I've even got a couple of the "United Snakes of America" pieces (the reverse of which, instead of sardonically asserting it is One Dime, goes even more sarcastic with "One Dam" as in, "Frankly my dear, I don't give one...." Two of my larger silver pieces by Gorham silver smiths include a silver dollar comparison wheel on the back - to show the difference between how much silver was actually in a silver dollar at the time and how much would be required in 1896 to match the actual gold value in a gold dollar. I included the Morgan Dollar for slab size comparison and the dwhiz dollar for fun. These 2 NGC slabs are my largest and I think they're neat. [ATTACH=full]1489081[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1489082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1489084[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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