Just when you've thought you'd heard every cockamamie story about someone finding an 1804 dollar, along comes another one. We last visited this perennial subject in the January 23, 2000 issue (Volume 3, Number 4), after an ad appeared in COIN WORLD offering a "$25,000 REWARD for the location and legitimate recovery of my 1804 SILVER DOLLAR." The full issue is archived on our web site at this address:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v03n04.html

Nearly a year later, we're treated to a web site titled "King of Kings of American Dollar?", where the author (whose English needs some work) notes: "I have discovered an incredible coin in China. The 1804 dollar to be precisely. "

Quoting from the web pages: