Whipple Dollars

cdwegner

anyone know the story behind Whipple Dollars?


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O.M. Whipple and Co. Westfield Mass. makers of whips.
The dollar was an embossed shell store card undated in gilt bronze repored issue date vary from 1885-1900 and is listed in H&B So Called Dollars book as being rare.
Some say it was issued during the Panic of 1893 and was therefore depression money.
It was halted from circulation by the Feds because of its resemblance to the then circulating Morgan dollar and because the wording legal tender and the One Dollar denomination appearing on it.
As a result it was never released although some say the piece did see limited circulation.

cdwegner

the reverse does look somewhat like a morgan dollar. Very neat.