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Forgotten Colorado Silver: Joseph Lesher's Defiant Coins

by Robert D. Leonard Jr
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781540217158
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: History Press Library Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press Library Editions
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 130
  • Original Price: USD 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 345 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Coins, Currency & Medals, and Silver, Gold & Other Metals

At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William Jennings Bryan fought unsuccessfully for free silver. Surviving an initial dust-up with the Secret Service, Lesher found a loophole to place them in circulation in 1900 and 1901. Today, coin collectors pay more than $1,000 for one. This is the story of Joseph Lesher and his audacious private mint, along with the merchants in the mining towns and elsewhere who supported him.

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