3/4 Union? How big would that have been?
RKKay
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Check out this letter from Linderman to Pollock re: a possible $73 gold piece.
Here are the Half Unions, courtesy of the NNC at the SI.
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It could be any size or diameter with the weight being set by adjusting the thickness of the planchet.
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That letter is so damn cool!
Got to play with this one at CSNS. Not gold, but still worth its weight in gem uncirculated 1877 Indian cents.
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When he asked about "how big" I thought he was talking about physical size rather than face value.
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It was kind of a rhetorical question. Knowing how monstrous the Half Unions are, that would have been another [nearly] 50% in bulk.
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That says $73, which makes no sense.
That’s the super fun size. Edit, but I don’t see the logic in making it $73 instead of $75.
I noticed that and assumed it was a typo. This coin would still be smaller than the 5 ounce silver America The Beautiful pucks.
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It was $73. Somebody proposed it as an international coin whereby $73 US was almost precisely 15 Sovereigns. Here is the correspondence courtesy of Brother Roger.
Interesting how the proposed "gold disk" design sounds something like the Saudi "gold disks" of the 1940's
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Did the three pictures of the correspondence come through for anybody?
Not for me.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Opened them up and re-saved them in a different format. Here is the first letter, in two halves:
Second and third letters:
As for size, think of three British Five Pound gold coins stacked together.
Interesting... I thought "$73 is a weird figure.)... But the above explanation makes sense. Love those old letters/penmanship. Cheers, RickO