Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — A Rare Dollar. [ARTICLE]

A Rare Dollar.

There are two stories regarding the rarity of the silver dollar of 1804, the most generally accepted being the one which accounts for the scarcity by saying that they were sent to Africa to pay; the soldiers engaged In war between this country and Tripoli. There were only 19,570 of them coined. Another versloa of the story which accounts for their rarity I *!# that a vessel bound to China with almost the entire mintage of that year was lost The former story appears to be the most likely explanation. * Pruyn-rHow did the Fat Woman and Living Skeleton come to marry? Phreques—Well, you ye, he said that he just doted on Junoesque women, and she declared that her affinity must be splrituelle.—Puck. We are all equally gnilty of putting our largest gifts in the places where they .will attract most attention.