Dollar - Dana Bickford of New York City

Reverse

Same center inscription; between outer circle and beaded border

Script: Latin

Lettering: Here is Shown the Value of Our Dollar in the Coin of Different Nations of the World.; between outer and inner circles, eight links contain Sterling 4.2 Francs 5.20 Kronen 3.80 Gulden 2.8 Marken 4.16 Guilder 2.50 Rouble 9.65 Yen 1.1; between inner circle and center, Invented and Protected by Dana Bickford

Comment

1897 Bickford Dollar HK-834. Aluminum, brass center. Dana Bickford of New York City, upon returning from a visit to Europe, where he experienced the then-usual difficulty in exchanging money, submitted to Mint Director Dr. Henry Linderman several designs for a token to promote universal exchange rates among major currencies of the world to be standardized for gold and silver. This variety displays a mound on the lower obverse that reads GOLD AND SILVER. Listed in the Hibler-Kappen reference as "very rare," 21 to 50 pieces known