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Do you think this Peace dollar is like a Trade dollar "Opium" coin?

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

I've always thought these were incredible:

I've owned a couple myself but it's been about ten + years and have long since sold them.

I've been kind of looking off and on for another yet have noticed prices on these have risen- not dramatically- but
enough to keep me from pulling the trigger, so to speak.

Then I came upon this Peace dollar:



It would be the first I've heard of a Peace dollar being modified into one of these locket coins.
Then again, it may not be.
I took the chance and either way, will show the results when this Peace dollar arrives.
Before it does though, do you think it is a locket/"opium" dollar or something else?

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  • 1madman1madman Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you look at the reflected image of the coin edge on the flip, at a minimum you can see a clamshell effect going on.

  • lermishlermish Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Based on timing, I don't think it was a Chinese opium/box dollar but that's only a moderately educated guess. But seems like it may have been constructed in the same way and would look just like one.

    Neat! I look forward to seeing it.

  • tokenprotokenpro Posts: 877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, Peace dollars are among the many types of U.S. & world coins that have been made into box dollars including $20 Saints & Libs and other gold coin types.

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You guys have given me faith.
    And, 1madman, that's some CSI'ing you've got going on!

    Here, I hope is a better shot of the first photo:

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

    never know, but impossible to tell if it is re-manufactured the same way as the trade or just 2 milled pieces pushed together

    look forward to the final results

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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Either way, you're going to own the only 1924-D Peace dollar in existence. :*

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,145 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I doubt any of these box coins were used to smuggle opium due to its very limited storage space. From what I've read, they usually carried a picture of a loved one and sometimes an XXX picture. :o

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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From my teller's drawer at Chase last week...

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

    great manicure! i bet there is no spilled mustard!

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    I doubt any of these box coins were used to smuggle opium due to its very limited storage space. From what I've read, they usually carried a picture of a loved one and sometimes an XXX picture. :o

    I agree and thus why I placed the word, "opium" in quotes.

    @Kurisu said:
    From my teller's drawer at Chase last week...

    Neat magician's coin. I purchased one of these at the Disneyland magic shop back in the 1970s.

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  • RobertScotLoverRobertScotLover Posts: 943 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These are neat novelty items, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it

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