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One of my Favorite Pictures: Vault full of Silver Dollars

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    aint this a beautiful thread. the best of everything and everything to dream for imageimage
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,340 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In the original uncropped 1938 photo, it is possible to count enough bags to account for nearly half of the 1938-D mintage of 491,600. >>


    Was wondering how many were on the palette. It looks like there's 5 or 6 layers of 15 bags each, so 90 bags, 2000 coins per bag (right?) makes 180,000 coins weighing roughly 2 1/2 tons.
  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here are some of the front and back designs of some of our CLASSIC notes....

    These are the 1896 Silver Certificates.

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  • <<Here are some of the front and back designs of some of our CLASSIC notes....

    These are the 1896 Silver Certificates.>>

    Note carefully the reverse if the 1896 $1. It documents the only lie that George Washington ever made. You see, he once told Martha "No one will ever come between us".
  • SmallSizedGuySmallSizedGuy Posts: 503 ✭✭✭
    Just think of the quantity of silver dollars and gold coin required to back these notes...

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  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great photo Jim. Do those labels ever turn up for sale?
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Just think of the quantity of silver dollars and gold coin required to back these notes...

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    Is that a lock box on the bottom shelf? With nearly $45,000,000.00 on display, what's the point? Must be something like a balance for accurate weighing.

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  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here are some of the front and back designs of some of our CLASSIC notes....

    These are the 1896 Silver Certificates.

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    Why can't money look like this anymore? image
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  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is the 1899 series of Silver Certificates.....

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  • WorldTypeSetWorldTypeSet Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Just think of the quantity of silver dollars and gold coin required to back these notes...

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    Is that a lock box on the bottom shelf? With nearly $45,000,000.00 on display, what's the point? Must be something like a balance for accurate weighing. >>



    I see $70 million in the two boxes in the middle of the top shelf. Great pic.
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭
    The original pic is a bulk grading dream.
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  • gsaguygsaguy Posts: 2,425


    << <i>As an old collector of postcards, I've seen that one several times. FYI, those four bags laying on the floor are Lafayette Dollars. If you price them at today's going rate, there is several million bucks laying there. >>



    I gave away a postcard with that photo of the silver dollars. The postcard was postmarked 1909. Is that possible? It looked legit.
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  • <<I gave away a postcard with that photo of the silver dollars. The postcard was postmarked 1909. Is that possible? It looked legit.>>

    <<I believe the postcard is estimated at circa 1900-1910>> Comment by original poster on page 2.

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