Image 3 of Las Vegas optic (East Las Vegas, N.M.), January 9, 1914, (CITY EDITION)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1914
availability: public_domain

LAS VEGAS DAILY OPTIC FRIDAY JANUARY 9 1914 M DOLLAR IS INDEBTED TO BEDOUINS ALL COINS OF RARE ISSUE WERE SENT TO TRIPOLI TO PAY MARINES Minneapolis Minn Jan 9 More myths and fewer facts have been printed and told of the 1804 American dollar than of any other coin ever cast save the widows mite and the Roman silver piece ordered by Caesar for Cleopatra Just after the famous general returned after his conquest of the Invading hosts of Egypt and whose circulation wa3 limited to a hundred pieces according to a nuiflls niatologist who makes his home in Minneapolis To commence with said this stu dent of the worlds coinage after read ing of the 1804 dollar said to have found in New Haven Conn last week and valued at 3500 there Is an American dollar worth many times more than the 1804 dollar that of 1868 None today are known and among coin collectors generally It Is believed that none exists Yet It Is an official fact that 1868 dies were made and six proofs as they are called impressed between the dies arid reeding hubs of the United States mint in Philadelphia But congress failed to