The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-27
ANOTHER 1904 DOLLAR
1t Is in the Hands of a New York
Numismatist.
HE GOT IT DIRT CHEAP
Felix Delos Found One Of the Priced DOL
lars in the Old Book Store on Ca
nal Street-Has the Appear
ance of Being Genuine.

The 1904 silver dollar which was re-
Gently found in Northern Montana has
been the occasion for a number of in
teresting articles in Eastern papers, the
New York Sun having published much
interesting matter in regard to these
scarce two thousand dollar dollars. 1t
has unearthed one of these dollars in
New York and tells the story in this
way:
Another 1904 dollar has turned UP.
While collectors have been offering
prices ranging around $1,000 for speci-
mems of this coin, and numismatlsts
have been discussing orally and verbally
the problem of what has become of the
10000 silver dollars struck off in 1904,
this piece has been lying in bookshelf
er's shop on Canal street. Two months
ago it was bought by Felix Delos,
marble cutter living at Sol West Fifty
second street, for 500. When Mr.. Delos
read i'm the Sun last week that one
Billy Seymour. bartender in Montana,
had received over his bar coin of that
denomination and vintage, reckoned to
be worth anywhere from s., 900 to $4,000,
he took his pen in hand to inform Mon
seur lie Directeur du Sun, in very eX-
celent French, of his 1904 dollar. So
reporter went there yesterday to see Mr..
Delos and his money.
Having first assured himself, with
considerable care, for which he politely
apologized, that his visitor was really
from the Sun and not piratical collec-
tor, Mr. Delos proceeded to produce the
dollar First he took off his coat, then
his waistcoat. Ioosening his right sus-
pender stray, he CROPPED with his left
hand in mysterious quarters somewhere
in the region of the seventh rib, and
after something of struggle, brought
N "a al fsh oaiG 80 Isrpi ph
opened, disclosed the much priced bit
AS to the genuineness of the coin,
only an expert would be qualified TO
give an opinion, and not very many ex-
perts, for comparatively few have ever
seen an 1904 dollar. This one was in an
excellent state of preservation, slightly
darkened, as ii from the action of sui
phur, but as clear and clean of cut as a
coin of the present year. Compared with
a dollar of 1900, Which Mr.. Delos has
1t showed the same workmanship, but
was somewhat better preserved. On the
diverse is the profile head of Liberty,
a rather Roman nosed Liberty. sharper
featured than our modern goddess, and
perhaps a bit of a virago, as befitted
those unsettled times. A singular feature
is the eye, in which the pupil is sharply
indicated. Around the edge of the dollar
are Is stars, seven to the right of the
head and six to the left. At the bottom
are the figures 1904. On the reverse the
familiar spread-winged eagle is found
holding in its beak the streamer in
scribed e Pluribus Tnum' Above are
the 13 stars, six in the upper row, five
in the second and two in the third, and
above them several circular blotches,
probably meant to indicate clouds roll
ing away The milling on both sides
of the coin is uneven in the length of
the lines, though sharply cut
Around the rim of the dollar there is
but
wrought, beginning at the bottom under
the dated, and going all the way
around:
"'one Dollar, One Unit; Hundred
Cents
Between the words are peculiar
marks four in a row, evidently put
there to fiji out space. Examination
with a powerful magnifying glass
failed to show any evidence that the
date had been changed, practice not
unknown to numismatists. With the
exception of the date, the dollar seemed
to be an exact replica of the 1900 dollar.
For about two years Mr.. Delos, who
is a collector of all kinds of antiquities
and of coins in particular has known
of the dollar. He first saw it in Hugh
Rodens old book store on Canal street
where he was bargaining for an old
volume.
This might be in your Ine,' said
the proprietor. showing him the coin.
Not very much said Mr.. Delos. 1
am more interested in coins of smaller
denominations, coppers particularly.
How much do you want for ito
Four thousand dollars said the
dealer.
MIR. Delos laughed and went away.
Some months after Mr.. Roden again
called his attention to the coin, but
they could not come to an agreement on
the price, though the dealer had materi-
ally modified his demand. Finally,
about two months ago, Mr.. Delos
bought the dollar for $500. He sup
posed it to be worth three or four hun
dred dollars. When he read in the Sun
of the value of real dollar of 1904 he
was surprised. Hitherto he has collect
ed as an amateur and has sold moth
ing, but this coin, he says, is too ex-
pensive a luxury for a man of his
means, and he will try to sell ii to the
government. Several years ago the gov
eminent attempted unsuccessfully to
purchase an 1904 dollar from Mr.. Parm-
lee, the Boston numismatist. number
of experts have seen Mr.. Delos dollar
and pronounced ii genuine