1776-Dated Dickeson Continental Currency Dollar Medal

1962 Bashlow Restrike, HK-853A, Bronze R.3

Choice Mint State, RB

A beautiful, all-original near-gem with lots of Red remaining.

In celebration of the US Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, the famous 19th Century doctor and numismatist, Montroville W. Dickeson, created struck copies, in silver, white metal, and copper, of the 1776 Continental Dollar. In 1961, Q. David Bower's Empire Coin Company acquired the original Dickeson dies and commissioned 7,200 white metal restrikes to be struck in England from transfer copies of those dies. In 1962, Robert Bashlow commissioned another round of restrikes from another set of copy dies in Silver, Bronze, and Brass. A curved defect in the dentils just left of the date is the most reliable diagnostic of the Bashlow Restrikes.

Essential reading on the subject can be found in our original, DM Rare Coins research article: Distinguishing Dickeson's Dollars: 1876 Continental Currency Dollar Imposters.

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