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<p>[QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 172379, member: 7033"]<b>Yocum Dollar</b></p><p><br /></p><p>to Satootoko: Actually not far off! the "Dogpatch" theme park (now closed) was near Jasper Arkansas, just about fifty miles down Highway 7 from the "Silver Dollar City" theme park which still exists outside of Branson Missouri. Silver Dollar City was actually NAMED after the Yocum Dollar which supposedly had origin in the nearby hills of Taney County! Many people in that area believe wholeheartedly in the Yocum Dollar legend. In fact, I was taken to task by an elderly Yocum descendant for my analysis of the legend... and was told in no uncertain terms that her uncle actually had one, and as a child she'd seen it. But of course she couldn't remember exactly what it looked like, and nobody in the family knows what happened to it after he died! Sound familiar? </p><p><br /></p><p>to Drusus: Actually, visitors to the mint are welcome, and if you stay very long I'll probably sit you at a press and put you to work. just remember, the HANDS MUST BE ON THE KNEES before you trip the footpedal! But every visitor to the mint gets to stick their hand into the "coffee can" that sits under the 50 ton Zeh and Hahnemann press and pick something out... that's where most of the off-metal trial strikes, offcenter strikes, brockage errors, clipped planchets, die-alignment proofs, and other weirdo screw-ups end up. We're not sticklers about errors around here! </p><p><br /></p><p>to Bonedigger: I don't recall ever making any buttons or conchos out of Mexican 5-peso pieces, so they're not mine, but I probably use a similar technique to do the ones I make. Thanks for the comments, glad you enjoy the stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>to Treashunt: No problem! Actually, there are even more bizarre twists to the story... such as the fact that the Yocum family in the US (and the various different spellings of the name, such as Yokum, Yoakum, Yoachum, Yochum, etc) all had origin in immigrants with the old-world name "Joachim". And of course that is the name of the valley "Joachimsthal" in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) where a great deal of silver was mined and where the first large and extremely popular "thaler" (Joachimsthaler) silver coins were minted in the early 1500s. So the Yocum name is connected not only to a local dollar coin legend, but in reality to the origin of the very denomination that eventually became known as the "dollar"! Curious and curiouser![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 172379, member: 7033"][b]Yocum Dollar[/b] to Satootoko: Actually not far off! the "Dogpatch" theme park (now closed) was near Jasper Arkansas, just about fifty miles down Highway 7 from the "Silver Dollar City" theme park which still exists outside of Branson Missouri. Silver Dollar City was actually NAMED after the Yocum Dollar which supposedly had origin in the nearby hills of Taney County! Many people in that area believe wholeheartedly in the Yocum Dollar legend. In fact, I was taken to task by an elderly Yocum descendant for my analysis of the legend... and was told in no uncertain terms that her uncle actually had one, and as a child she'd seen it. But of course she couldn't remember exactly what it looked like, and nobody in the family knows what happened to it after he died! Sound familiar? to Drusus: Actually, visitors to the mint are welcome, and if you stay very long I'll probably sit you at a press and put you to work. just remember, the HANDS MUST BE ON THE KNEES before you trip the footpedal! But every visitor to the mint gets to stick their hand into the "coffee can" that sits under the 50 ton Zeh and Hahnemann press and pick something out... that's where most of the off-metal trial strikes, offcenter strikes, brockage errors, clipped planchets, die-alignment proofs, and other weirdo screw-ups end up. We're not sticklers about errors around here! to Bonedigger: I don't recall ever making any buttons or conchos out of Mexican 5-peso pieces, so they're not mine, but I probably use a similar technique to do the ones I make. Thanks for the comments, glad you enjoy the stuff! to Treashunt: No problem! Actually, there are even more bizarre twists to the story... such as the fact that the Yocum family in the US (and the various different spellings of the name, such as Yokum, Yoakum, Yoachum, Yochum, etc) all had origin in immigrants with the old-world name "Joachim". And of course that is the name of the valley "Joachimsthal" in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) where a great deal of silver was mined and where the first large and extremely popular "thaler" (Joachimsthaler) silver coins were minted in the early 1500s. So the Yocum name is connected not only to a local dollar coin legend, but in reality to the origin of the very denomination that eventually became known as the "dollar"! Curious and curiouser![/QUOTE]
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