So-Called Dollar Eye Candy - Great Photos Thread!

Zoins

This is a thread for So-Called Dollars with Great Photos!

Post any so-called dollars here!

Here's a nice looking Wilson Dollar by George Thomas Morgan. Wonderful photos courtesy of @PhilArnold!

Lazybones

Lazybones

braddick

I am looking forward to Maywood's examples.

Here are two I don't own yet believe to be lovely:

crazyhounddog

robec

jesbroken

wondercoin

‘’Here's a nice looking Wilson Dollar by George Thomas Morgan.’’

A JHF coin actually that closes in about 4 hours today in the grade of 63. Phil did do a nice job with that pic.

Wondercoin

Kurisu

braddick

One of my favorites.
(Not really a "dollar" yet kind of close enough?)

Zoins

@wondercoin said:
‘’Here's a nice looking Wilson Dollar by George Thomas Morgan.’’

A JHF coin actually that closes in about 4 hours today in the grade of 63. Phil did do a nice job with that pic.

Wondercoin

Nice to know this is a JHF coin! It's really a very attractive looking piece.

Were you involved with this coin, buying, selling, or enjoying?

Zoins

@Kurisu said:

The HK-155 George T. Morgan piece is one of my favorites! and part of what got me into collecting So-Called Dollars!

Great to see @SoCalledGuy in action with his great numismatic contributions to the hobby!

MWallace

Zoins

@braddick said:
I am looking forward to Maywood's examples.

Me too! Here's a callout to @Maywood!

johnny010

Zoins

@johnny010 said:

Amazing!!! Any additional thoughts on this @CaptHenway?

Here's the TrueView!

Ref: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/47079312

It's interesting it has a Kenney number! Is that a reference to Richard David Dombroff Kenney's So-Called Dollar guide mentioned here?

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12683064/#Comment_12683064

johnny010

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@Zoins believe you are correct from my research.

Here is the casting housed at the ANS in NYC. Scott Miller located it for me after much research. Unfortunately the cast was not documented properly. For more information I would need to fly there and look through the records.

Zoins

@johnny010 said:

@Zoins believe you are correct from my research.

Here is the casting housed at the ANS in NYC. Scott Miller located it for me after much research. Unfortunately the cast was not documented properly. For more information I would need to fly there and look through the records.

Amazing! The ANS is a treasure. Kudos to Scott Miller for helping out!

Callout to @JesseKraft, our resident ANS member!

Zoins

Here's a nice excerpt from Tom's article on Kenney-13:

@CaptHenway said:
The piece apparently remained unknown to the numismatic world until February 2016, when a man walked into a coin shop in the Atlanta area with seven examples of what later turned out to be Kenney-13, struck in gold.

The store owner showed one to former ANA Governor Bill Fivaz, who sent pictures of it to authors and U.S. coinage experts Q. David Bowers, Kenneth E. Bressett and myself. None of us were familiar with the piece, so I shared the photos with noted numismatist David T. Alexander. He suggested looking in Kenney’s works, where I found it thanks to the new digital archives of The Numismatist.

A longer excerpt is available on E-Sylum here:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n10.html#article28

Also found your original thread on this here:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1093365/unofficial-coins-of-the-world-kenney-13

Of course, at $100 face value, it's really a So-Called Union, not a So-Called Dollar

mattniss

Have shared these here on the forums before, but love any excuse to share again!

Mr_Spud

To go with ^ , my NGC PF66 Ultra Cameo

Zoins

@Zoins said:

@wondercoin said:
‘’Here's a nice looking Wilson Dollar by George Thomas Morgan.’’

A JHF coin actually that closes in about 4 hours today in the grade of 63. Phil did do a nice job with that pic.

Wondercoin

Nice to know this is a JHF coin! It's really a very attractive looking piece.

Were you involved with this coin, buying, selling, or enjoying?

Here's the GC link now that it's closed. Nice price at $1,575.00.

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/1562393/

Zoins

Great pieces everyone! It's great to see all these marvelous designs and pieces of history!

wondercoin

@Zoins said:

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Nice to know this is a JHF coin! It's really a very attractive looking piece.

Were you involved with this coin, buying, selling, or enjoying?
Here's the GC link now that it's closed. Nice price at $1,575.00.

Zoins: I didn’t want to say too much about the coin while it was in the last day of the GC auction. But, it really was a lovely coin and congratulations to the buyer who competed with 14 total bidders for the coin and won it!

At his passing, I believe JHF had at least (4) very special 1920 Wilson Silver (So called) Dollars, consisting of 2- 65’s, a 64 and the 63 that appeared on G.C last night. It might have easily been a 63+ or higher quality coin as a large % of JHF coins are being sold in their original holders without being submitted for upgrade. Not every single coin obviously, but a decent % of them. And, collectors are appreciating this reality - ex. Last night at GC a beautiful original 1947-S MacArthur (JHF) in 65 sold for more money than the most recent 66+ auction specimen!

Side note- Too bad CAC doesn’t sticker USPI coins. Makes no sense at all actually.

Wondercoin

Maywood

Thanks for the kind words. I've actually sold most of my SC$'s and don't tend to keep pictures of them to remind me, I do still have a few that I kept because I really like the designs, here are two.

Zoins

Beautiful So-Called Dollars!

For some more beautiful pieces, see the Keets Collection of So-Called Dollars here:

https://privatemintnews.com/articles/so-called-dollars_the-keets-collection/

Byers

@Zoins said:
Beautiful So-Called Dollars!

For some more beautiful pieces, see the Keets Collection of So-Called Dollars here:

https://privatemintnews.com/articles/so-called-dollars_the-keets-collection/

Informative article on privatemintnews!

Zoins

Here's my WWII Victory Medal from the Keets Collection, along with a US Mint reissue from CoinFacts. I have reissue as well but haven't sent it in for grading yet.

Goldminers