In last week's issue of The E-Sylum there was a review of a new book on Lesher Dollars titled, "Forgotten Colorado Silver / Joseph Lesher's Defiant Coins" by Robert D. Leonard Jr., Kenneth L. Hallenbeck and Adna G. Wilde, Jr.

I've always liked the Lesher Dollars and was fortunate to purchase the Ostheimer Collection of Lesher Dollars over 15 years ago. Most of these rare medals have great pedigrees and two are plate coins in the first edition of the Hibler & Kappen So-Called Dollars book. The Ostheimer Specimen of the Boyd Park Lesher Dollar is graded NGC MS66 and is the highest graded example of any Lesher Dollar graded by PCGS or NGC.

Six collectors will be displaying their Lesher Dollar collections at Table 439 at the 2017 Denver ANA World's Fair of Money. We will have all of the known Lesher Dollar Types and merchants together for the first time ever. Four of these Lesher Dollars are unique. The two top collections are included, one with three unique pieces and the other with one unique example. This is the first time ever that all of the known types and merchants are together.

We will have four cases with between 60-75 Lesher Dollars in total on display, along with associated numismatic literature and auction catalogs, space permitting. This should be the largest "gathering" of Lesher Dollars ever, or at least since 1900-01 when they were made!

In contrast, the 1952 A.N.A. Sale offered 54 examples of Lesher Dollars (Lots 2933 to 2986), probably the largest number offered in one place or sale to date. This was the collection of O. K. Rumbel of Mission, Texas. After Lot 2986 was opened and sold, the auctioneer opened the bidding at $100 over the sum of the prices realized for Lots 2933 to 2986, and "Suitcase Foster" took all the Lesher Dollars with him back to New York! A story for another day.

Even seeing one to three Lesher Dollars at a dealer or in an auction sale "is a lot." The ANA will also have Adna Wilde's Lesher Dollar Collection (that Adna donated to the ANA) on display in their showcase. This ANA you can see close to 100 examples of these rare medals at this year's World's Fair of Money!

For more information you can visit the Lesher Referendum Dollars website at http://lesherdollars.com/ , PCGS CoinFacts Lesher Dollar website content at http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Hierarchy.aspx?c=853 , and / or the PCGS Lesher Dollar Registry athttps://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/private-issues-territorial-gold/territorial-private-issues/colorado-lesher-silver-dollars-1900-1901/alltimeset/9930 (this set will be part of our ANA display).

I will be close by at Table 435 if you have any questions. Thanks.

Christopher Marchase adds:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BOOK REVIEW: FORGOTTEN COLORADO SILVER(http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n29a05.html)