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Bryan Money So-Called Dollar (Schornstein 7)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Bryan Money So-Called Dollar (Schornstein 7)
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150.00USD+ (36.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Oct 21 @ 10:09UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Schornstein 7. Obv.: A Government dollar contains / 412 1/2 grains / coin silver 900-1000 fine / This Piece Contains / 823 grains coin silver / In Value the Equivalent of / One Gold Dollar / Sept, 16th 1896 / Gorham Mfg. Co. Silversmiths. Rev.: Blank. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51868

Bryan Money

The presidential election of 1896 was perhaps the last “single issue” campaign in American history. By 1900, the Spanish American War had complicated the nation’s priorities and by 1908, World War I and America’s international power made the political stage much more complicated. William Jennings Bryan ran for President and lost all three elections.

The single political issue in 1896 was “free coinage of silver to gold at a 16 to 1 ratio.” The eastern bankers wanted to retain the gold standard, while Bryan represented the western miners and farmers that wanted a bimetallic currency of silver and gold. Newspapers carried speeches and cartoons but without television or radio, medals and coinage and pinbacks advertised a man’s position on the issue. Some of the satirical medals resembled United States coinage, so the Secret Service became involved in the issue.

In 1926, Farran Zerbe penned an article in the Numismatist “Bryan Money.” Hibler and Kappen listed 10 pieces of Bryan Money in “So-Called Dollars,” in 1963. Fred Schornstein’s “Bryan Money” (2001) listed over 300 pieces and 20 newspaper cartoons from the era.

This consignment is a great opportunity to start or add to your collection from a crucial election in American History.