People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — SOUVENIRS IN BIG DEMAND. [ARTICLE]

SOUVENIRS IN BIG DEMAND.

Speculators Obtain Five Dollars for the First of the Columbian Half-Dollars. CaacAeo, Dec. 21. —Columbian souvenir half-dollars are in great demand and the supply is exceedingly limited. The first subscribers for the coins, whose orders were taken months ago, called at the office of Treasurer Seeberger and carried their treasures away in little canvas bags. Comparatively few of these found their way into circulation, however. Those that were taken by business houses were distributed among employes, who will hold the coins as keepsakes and prize them as coming from the first lot shipped to Chicago. Some of those that did get into circulation brought big premiums from people anxious to possess one of the first consignment They were' sold by the speculators in some of the hotels for as much as five dollars apiece.