Show WHERE THE TilE GOLD DOLLARS WENT YENT I N More Than Twenty Millions Milons Is ls Issued Issued Is- Is I sued but Most Have Vanished l I IMADE MADE BANGLES BANGLE FOR WOMEN There Arc rc Sc FI e Sc Varieties orth oC or th the lie Gold Guil antI and Some 0 or orTle Tle These Arc Are Very cr Rare Hurc 1 The rime small sinaI smal gold golt dollar colar Is one ono of or time the most remarkable of or American coins coumis coins Every Issue now bears beat a premium and In tn some some cases this amounts to more than beth 00 Yet Yot these coins were issued for forty years ears from IS 18 iStO 19 HI to 1880 1889 and a grand total of or nearly twenty and ani anc a halt half million milon pieces wern turned out during that period by uy the coinage presses There are alc seventy live varieties of or orthe the gold gohl dollar dolar Of OC these the time Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia mint struck forty New e eOr Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans six Ix San al Francisco seven Charlotte Charlotte Char Char- lotte N. N C. C nine and Dahlonega Ga thirteen The fhe gold dollar dolar str strick ck at In 1861 Is probably the rarest ani Only two tso specimens are O known leown up lip 11 to dato date and each Is worth more mono than The rho 1860 D 0 dollar dolar Is worth woith 38 and ant one ono of oC th the tho same me mint dated tinted 1885 recently sol sold for or 5 52 The Tue dollar dolar ranking ranking next In point of or rarity Is the one dated 1851 1 which was coined at the Charlotte Charlote mint This bears the liberty head on th tho oh cr obverse a and the time mint letter leler C C The United States mint records state that only four were coined antI and a single sped sped- specimen spec spec- men Is now easily worth 00 The rho Philadelphia mints aunts rarest t gold gob olt dollar dolar Is date dated 1875 In Imi this year just I O gold gol dollars dolar were struck Each one of or these is s worth from rom rein 60 GO up up- ward ivard I For some reason realon the he gol 1 dollar dolar struck at the lie San Francisco In 1870 ranks In rarity with Issues of or the other mints dollar dol dol- lan lar has hns a record price of oC and 05 yet were coined The Carson CI City mint struck o no gold dollars dolar and none mione of or those Issued bythe by bythe the thc New ew Orleans Institution Is scarce Used on Oit Bracelets A few years eals ago 10 these little coins were plentiful Their rimeir present scarcity has come about chiefly through thor their use as bangles on bracelets When hen this fad at was at Its IL height about twenty years ago it I war a u common common com coot mon momi thing for a young woman tops to ps possess es a bracelet with wih from Crom ten to five twenty gold dollars dangling Each of ot these had bath the time design erased from Crom one side side and amid upon the smooth surface were en engraved the tho initials of the particular adr admirer who presented the time bangle A girls girl's glIs popularity was often oren meaSured measured meas incas b by the tho number of oC bangles she wore on omi her bracelet and arid I It may bo be Imagined how hen man many gold dollars ra iero used for Cor or this sort orl of oC ornament ornament Mo Most t of the coins subjected to this tr treatment were ero rendered utterly worthless to time iho coin collector and amid tho lie widespread d m mutilation mu mu- Uon Uh luul the l' l l I of oC Groat rarity to it certain dates 8 1 r While the lie bangle f fad Cad d has gone pone In Inthis In J this country countr It is la stilt still regarded with favor in Mexico where the year ye-ar ar in and year out use ue bangles of gold as a n standard ornament and this steady teady demand causes the thc increasing price of or gold dollars the commonest of oC which arc are now worth 1 80 80 apiece The lime ht gold dollar tolar was first Issued 1 by this Government In 1849 but several varieties of or gold Jold dollars dollar's had previously pre been coined in the lie h by a private The born boro mint at Rutherford N. N C. C They 1 no date hut but It Is certain that they struck about 1831 1 First PIt I Issue lc The first Issue o of these coins known as dollars from Crom tho the name of oC the owner of the mint showed on cit the obverse obverse- o echter Ruther In hut the thc field was 28 G. G On hi n the le el reverse o was Caroln Carolina Dollar Doliar Dolar in the lie center being a a figure 1 1 Tho rho variety bore hore A Becht- Becht ler leI 1 Del Dol Dol on the obverse Carolina Carolla Caro lina lla Gold was tins on omi the reverse with 2 27 G. G 21 1 C. C The third general typo showed the thc name of oC C I In the tho field elt was ivas 30 G. G On the tho N other othol side was Carolina Gold Golt Dollar Dola In tho the center was tho the old One The rime first varieties arc now nw worth about 2 the last is held at nt 8 The Time next gold dollar dolar was struck at atthe tho the Mint in iii 1836 a as a l pattern coin coimi On tho time obverse It I had hod a radiated Liberty Lib Lib- crt orb erty CD cop cap p bearing the tho word liberty on the band hand On tho the reverse around tho the border bordel was the tho Inscription United Unit ed cd States of or America America Encircled by hy bya hya a a palm branch was 1 D. D The Time date dato cato 1836 was below This was struck In gold sil silver silvon sl- sl sil- sil ver von and amid copper A specimen In gold oll Is 15 worth 5 while one ono In silver is valued at S 10 O. O In Iii 1819 the lie first dollar in gold was Issued by the time Mint In the form Corm of a pattern coin This specimen on tho the obverse showed a laurel wreath surrounding sun sur rounding a square hole Tho rho reverse SU bore hore the Inscription I 1 Dollar Dolar I surrounded sur sur- J rounded by hy thirteen stars Time Tho edge of oC lie tho the pattern coin was plain A A. specimen I Is now worth 22 2 The rhe de design design tie tie- sign was not accepted and the thc ono ommo Ii now familiar then came Into II- II ton This coin was too small smal for practical cal use and in iii 1854 Its Us size was In Increased increased In- In creased b by adding alloys but time the in In- In lo value of oC the tho gold remained the same rIme Tho new stylo tylo also showed a n chan change e In design on tho the obverse this being an un Indian girls girl's head with a plumed coronet wih There are arc two sizes of oC the Indian head The coins hearing bearing the small sinai head 1 were Issued In ln 1855 b bv by smal the Philadelphia New Orleans and Dahlonega mints and In San Sari Pratt Fran Frncisco Frn- Frn cisco In iii 1856 The larger head I Is Iq borno borne b by all tho the other ether lar al large e sized gold dollars up to 1889 golt The ho Mint designers seem seemed cd to havo a fondness for COl s tho ho coin coimi with a hole holo signs In Iii the tIme center for Cor In iii 1852 wih four form COU de tie tie- were submitted to congress Time Tho congress general generl design of or those theo four patterns showed ed a circular hole In tn time tho thornier center contel ot of on the AmerIca obverse being United S States ates 1852 rho Tho words wOId Ring D Dollar ar on tho the revor reverse o a circle of or laurel sprigs Patterns of this style irene In n gold silver struck copper and nickel but none of hoot met with of these approval patterns a scroll hi gold this piece around the centre and Another is 24 odd dollar in 1852 canto from the bore 11 8 1852 on time obverse A. A and was over a quarter eagle of The verse had seven no- no olive berries small of each and two leaves tho or hits other pattern dollars oddity had a hole In struck In the centre 23 gold this coin Is 1 |