1 Dollar - Nassau Water Works Brooklyn, New York

Reverse

Edifice with tall smokestack; on edifice base microscopic F.B. Smith & Hartmann; above, around, Water Introduced in the City of Brooklyn / December 1858; below edifice, Celebrated April / 1859

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WATER INTRODUCED IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN
DECEMBER 1858
F.B. SMITH & HARTMANN
CELEBRATED APRIL
1859

Comment

1859 Nassau Water Works So-Called Dollar, HK-589B, This seldom seen so-called dollar is listed in Part II of the 1963 Hibler-Kappen reference as "extremely rare," making this one of the more sought-after so-called dollars. Census: 1 in 58, 6 finer