Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-05-06

..a+os dollar, now in its one hunar- dt4
..,or recently began the long trip
.rom De-ve: to Portland, Ore. atrzr
having lain in a Denver collection ].
coins for moe than Eighteen years.
Tboqsa IL dollar is about lie s.ze
of those coined dusiA- IT, a=~4ar
year am contains a58et 'tt- -aa#e Her--
her Of grains Of silver 5:55sat II
the neigaborhood Of $555 per sam
Of pare silver i'll It's combination. az
all this because IL has Hee4.is en-
fo.m for 700 years.
TIE dollar 5 ole OF the aiaasa q
1901. Of which there az 7n'y sesea-
known 10 be in existence. ! was
bought u the late j V. Dex'e al
the Chapman sale Il coins in 1>>5.
At that time the cora had been bat
at5fy secured from collection n
Berlin, being tae oaty one 81 the#d r
lars that is know to have ben in
foreign collection.
NJ. Dexter pad s1oo5 z8g lie dol
lar. having te bio aeaiast- ssga.a1
other collectors. the Prfce being a ma
time the large s. that las eyel been
paid for enc q the coinage name.
Since then one q the othe COINS has
been sold for $1,000 a rac0ra that nod
good until H. G. Brown d Portland.
sO.e.. paid $4,000 for me coin to 4. 6
'Parxi1 wao succeeded To the oHae-.
ship OF the Dexter collection Nr.
AParytn did not willingly part VIII t.le
coin at that price, for he had held il
as the keypiece OF his numismatie
collection.
About year ago the story ef the
Parvin 1904 dollar was psinted in
papers throughout the country. As
result, Mr.. Parvin has been Teceiv-
ing letters ever since concerning h!s
reelection of rare coins from ali parts
of the country. A Chicago man tried
to buy the dollar, offering UP to $500,
and failed Then man in st. Louis
tried 10 get it for a collection TO be
exhibited at the worlds fair
During these negotiations Mr Par,
viz thought he discovered the limit OF
sbidding and that no man would go
over $500 in trying to get the coin.
So Xnen h. was asked to pat price
upon it, he replied that he was not
willing 10 dispose OF it, bet had SET
his price at $4,000
Mr. Brown did nor vail f9r the slow
progress of the United States mail,
but telegraphed 10. send on the &c lar,
Aftef that teleg1ams came At the rate
OF one a day, and. while Mr. Parvil
was reluctantly placing the dollar in
a candy bcx and labelling it there
came another telegram 10 hurry up
the dollar anyway and to sead it &C.
0. D. if there was no Other way. So
the dollar started west.
The scarcity of the dollars of the
1907 mintase is explained by an acct
deIt at sea, The larger part Of the
silver dollars Of that year were
struck of jc pay United States sol
diers and sailors doing duty in Tripoli,
North Africa, and were shipped to that
place. The vessel that oarri them
away from this country was never
heard from gain, SO the entire cargo
is supposed to rest somewhere upon
the floor of the Atlantic ocean
al Just seven copies of the dollar of
that year are in existence, two lying
In the mint at Philadelphia, and the
others being in private collections.
In 1858 some copies Of the coin OF
1904 were struck off, being known as
n restrikes," but all but two of them
we're called in, the records show, and
#estrcyed One copy of the "restrike'
3 in the mint at Philadelphia and the
Other is owned in England. Nc coUn-
'terfeit of the 1904 dollar was ever
Known.
E& Said an amateur numismatist the