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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25112765, member: 101855"]I have four. My fairly new type set coin. It is a PR-64. I had wanted a Proof Trade Dollar for a long time. This one is a Proof only issue with a mintage of 960. It's one of the "common dates." [ATTACH=full]1602751[/ATTACH] Auction House photo of it. [ATTACH=full]1602752[/ATTACH] My previous type coin. It's an MS-63. I still have it. [ATTACH=full]1602753[/ATTACH] A "box Trade Dollar" The romantic story about these is that they were used to smuggle opium. The real story is that they were hollowed out in the 19th century to house pictures of loved ones. I have seen Columbian commemorative half dollars that had been given the same treatment. It probably dates from the 1880s and early '90s. [ATTACH=full]1602754[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1602755[/ATTACH] In the closed position. [ATTACH=full]1602756[/ATTACH] A well chopped marked Trade Dollar. This one has solder on the edge which means it was probably used for jewelry at one time. It was on "the Boston Bid Wall" in the early 1980s. No one bid on it so I ended up with it after the sale for $20. As one guy said, "You would have thought that the others would have taken the first guy's word for it that it was real. [ATTACH=full]1602757[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]