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A SO CALLED DOLLAR IS......... A token or medal (not a coin) that generally commemorates a public or special event, a famous person, or a famous place. Some examples would include world's fairs, town or state anniversaries, statue dedications, and other events or historical figures in American history. They generally measure between 33 and 45 mm in diameter, and most collectors stick to pieces made prior to 1962 or so, due partially to the fact that this is when Harold Hibler and Charles Kappen's book on the subject was published. There are also two other types of so called dollars. One group is sometimes refered to as the "monetary" so called dollars. Most of these pieces center around the silver- gold controversy that was a divisive political issue during the late 1800s, and was the centerpiece of the presidential political campaign of 1896. These pieces have no size limitations, and include what are probably the most famous so called dollars, the Lesher dollars. The third group of pieces are the much smaller, and sometimes overlooked, gold dollar size pieces (often times not made of gold) that, like the larger so called dollars, were often associated with the world's fairs. |
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