Kansas City journal., 1898-01-08
A 100000 CENT DOLLAR.
New Yorker Picks Up One Dated
1904 for $1OO-WOrth Several
Times That Amount

From the New York SUM-
Another 1904 dollar has turned up. Will
collectorS have been Offering prices rangin,
around 5000 for specimens of this coin
ana and numismatists have been discussing or
has become of the 10000 silver dollars strnc,
on In 1904 this piece has been living in :
on,h poOhJeiiers shop on Canal street. TIVE
cutter living at @ SY WaEf Ee1 PaU Fffs
second street for 800. When Mr.. Deio.
gam seaa IN the sun last week that one Billy
| SEYMOUR, bartender in Montana, had re.
ceived over his bar coin of that denomi.
nation and vintage. reckoned to be worth
STnebe peS in hend from m 200 to $4,000 he took his
| sun, in very excellent French, of his 1Stj
dollar. So Il reporter went there Yesterday
| 70 e;n see Mr; DE Delos and his money.
IiaNlhg nrSt assured himself with consid-
! e etanie care. for which he politely apollo
SSXeo SSE, thst ms visitor was really from the
Sraa, sun ana not piratical collector. Mr. DeIos
ploISeeaed proc. TO produce the dollar First he
LOOK LOOK on his coat. then his waistcoat. I,oos-
e,,hs ui,hs m, ms right suspender strap he groped
somsuh Md1m ms lett hand in mysterious quarters
sooiheWhere IN the region of the seventh
rib. and after something of n strurrIa
hai,is hpaiEusnt 1orth small chamois case. which
's Az t opened ,h disclosed the much-prized bit.
~ 1's 10 lne senuineness of the coin only
an expert would be qualified to give an
cpr,Ion cprrIon: ana not very many experts. for
dollar. This one was in an exceIIar, an st iSei
OF OF preservation. slightly darkencd. as If
and W1i o,ans tne action of sulphur. but as clear
year Compared with a dollar Of ism
Wnni.1 wnrGn Mr; Delos has. it showed the same
m1rkmahshiP; nressrEad but was somewhat better
hu T'ihor. of Liberty, rather Roman-nosed
ea1easy.,' sharper featured than our modern
befitted tbnes h;,s perhaps bit of viraso. as
shar,e sGhaiure Is the eye. in which the publ is
Sni,a SLni,rpiy indicated. Around the edge of the
right of the .ii3rteen brad a, stars seven to the
tn'.o rne potion are the figures 1901. on tho
ievGrSe is fa,s the familiar spread-winged eagle
inscribed "E Piuribus Tnum Sre;'n,er Sn,.a @
t sne thirteen stars. six in the upner row,
and nbo,in an tne .S second and two in the third.
propapiy pi meant to indicate clouds roli;ns..
away; The milling on both sides Of noiIhs ibs
tbnngS tblm Is uneven in the length of the lines
n,;iIip hiTonnd the rim of the dollar there is no
Wrni,l;. ri,,nS; but this inscription. ciriouslV !
: wrought he ds, beg beginning at the bottom under under
pone Dollar One Unit: Hundred Cents -
= betWeen the words are peculiar nnrt
r opt snaca m q row: evidently put there to Mi
5s ila lNints glass failed to show any e,.i
% %aence that the date had been cbanSed d
With the eSl exceniiAI nhRnoWn w to numismatists
1oliar iepnca OF the 1900
For about two years Mr. ne,o. ~
collector of all kinds of antiuifisMs Mi'o ~, II
u 9d,I COINS in particular. has known Of tha
,ld ,b1idr, hoo, ne e. flrst saw it in Hugh Roden's
10 pook store on Canal street. where he
'as :.:r,i 9iarsainins for an old volume He
'sht sbowin 6e IN ht, your line said the
Not very much" said Mr.. Delos "J am
'iofe n,ie interested in coins of smaller denomil
"a ations' IONS coppers particularly. How mich
10 you want for it ?" " iii"ch
,Ir -Four & thousand dollars" said the dealer.
Mr. Deios laughed and went away some I
aonths after Mr.. Roden again called hie ;
'ton ome TO an 70 the coin but they could not
ne dealer had materially modified bis ousi I,i
,aIna ,aha. fnnaily: about two months ago. Mr. O
'eioS bought the dollar for si00 He s,nn M, G
ossd 1t to be worth $500 or 800. Wben ha
ola oIIar IN Of 'hs nso, sun h OF the value of a real
e has collected as an amateur ,nd ldthJrto ha +
Spensive ndiving pr pmr this coin he says is too
nd he VIII try and sell it to the pnrsr,'
itemntsG sdVTral Years ago the government
VI dollar from Mr.. Parmlee the Eostam ar, F
.nm aismil'iSt; mr n:,o a number of experts have
enuine. pronounced II I,