Fl. 1893

Resident of Alexandria, Virginia.

* The story is told that Driefus bought an 1804 dollar for $100 in 1893. It was said to have come from the son of a former slave and had been in that family for more than 40 years. Driefus gave it to Isaac Rosenthal in settlement of a $500 debt. In 1894 the piece was purchased from Rosenthal by Oliver Bosbyshell. Bosbyshell produced a letter citing mint employees Robert McClure, Jacob Eckfeldt and Charles Barber who were all in agreement that the coin was a "genuine dollar struck in the Year 1804." Newman and Bressett have identified the Driefus coin as a class III dollar produced by Theodore Eckfeldt in 1858.

[*No record has been found for W. Julius Driefus anywhere in the country. There was a Julius Dreifus operating J. Dreifus & Co. at No. 3 Irving's Wharf in Alexandria at about the right time.]