So Called Dollars

 
       The term “So-called dollars” was the title of work by Richard D. Kenney which first appeared in the Coin Collector’s Journal
in July-August 1953.

   The standard reference on the series by this title was written by Harold D. Hibler and Charles V. Kappen (HK), published in 1963.
There is a sanctioned online version of this classic reference:  http://www.so-calleddollars.com/index.html.

    The first known use of the label is in a Thomas L. Elder  auction catalog, September 27-28, 1912, describing lot 395, the Theodore
Roosevelt medal of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, now known as HK 308.

    The term is used to designate medals of near dollar size, at first of a commemorative or exposition nature, with some later issues
of a monetary nature.  Given the amorphous nature of the term, HK have done a remarkable job of classifying these issues and
choosing which pieces to include in their standard reference, which has not been superseded in the 40 years since it’s been published.
  
  Anyone collecting this series should be aware that the definition of a "So Called dollar" is fairly loose, and probably ignored
to some extent by H&K, who probably included many pieces just because they appealed to them. See e,g, HK731. This
fact was noted by a serious devotee of the series. See http://www.socalleddollar.com/.

    I've devoted a separate page to Bryan "dollars", which are included in the HK reference.

    Collectors of the series tend to pick and chooses which ones of the listed pieces, and nonlisted pieces appeal to us. 
I am unaware of any one assembling a "complete" set according to HK.  I’ve collect mostly silver issues of this series,
closer to the dollar size.  I also picture here medals which are not in HK, and perhaps do not belong in HK.


   I have indicated with a (**)  pieces that appeal to me that are not in my collection.

FAIRS & EXHIBITIONS	HK  Part I  - HK 1 - 589
HK 19 NEVADA DOLLAR This specimen almost surely saw circulation as a silver dollar.	HK 20 Authorized by the 43rd Congress - Struck at the Philadelphia Mint Exhibit (in the Philadelphia Centennial  Exposition)  - This piece is frequently found in circulated condition. About as close as one could come to a 1876 Centennial  Commemorative dollar This one is a slightly handled proof.	HK125 BRONZE MEDAL T
HK156  Declaration of Independence 1892 (**)	HK296 WELLS FARGO	HK 299 LOUISIANA PURCHASE	HK297 HK297 NYSE (**) HK 325 Lewis and Clark (**)
HK336  ZEBULON PIKE	HK344 JAMESTOWN - SILVER	HK369 HUDSON DAALDER	HK379 HUDSON/FULTON
HK386 TAFT//DIAZ	HK388 TAFT//DIAZ - Spanish language version -  HK ackowledges a RARE copper version UNLISTED in Silver	HK390 BORU (**)	HK399 HK399-PAN PACIFIC
HK 491 1939 NY Worlds Fair	HK435 VISIT OF ALLIES	HK449 WILSON  DOLLAR	HK461 HK461  WM PENN
HK507 Washington D.C. Sesqicentennial	HK510  1954  Albany, N.Y. "Cradle of the Union" Celebration 200th Anniversary of he "First American Congress" at which Franklin presented his first plan of a Federal Union, forerunner of the 1776 Articles of Confederation	HK517 MINNIESOTA Dollar	HK 539 1959 "Amercan Airlines" "Jet dollar" One of 50 "Presentation Pieces" Edge Engraved "S.Solomon" #36
HK542 COLORADO	HK566 HK566PENDLETON T	HK575 HK575ALASKA MUSIC (**)	HK582 HK582PONY EXPRESS T
HK584 PONY EXPRESS (**)	HK586  KANSAS T	HK587 MOBILE ALABAMA 250th T	HK 588 Pony Express Termination
Bicentennial:	1973 BICENTENNIAL MEDAL Samuel Adams / Patrick Henry	1974 BICENTENNIAL MEDAL John Adams	1975 BICENTENNIAL MEDAL Paul Revere \
	1976  BICENTENNIAL MEDAL Jefferson	1972 Bicentennial Medal - George Washington  - only in bronze?
PART II = HK 589 A - 776	COMMEMORATIVE AND EXPOSITION MEDALS OF LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE	HK680 SANTA MONICA (**)
PART IIB	HK731 Consolidated Kansas City     Smelting & Refining  Company 1889 The only Silver medal in Part II B of HK
s
		HK789 # 709LESHER DOLLAR	ANA Lesher Sounvenir
HK798 HK798-812 ELDER (*)	HK820 MONTANA $	HK 358 UTAH Dollar (**)
HK821 HK821 NEVADA STERLING (**)	HK822 HK822 PEDLEY I (**)	HK823 HK823 PEDLEY II (**)	HK824 HK824 PEDLEY III
HK825 PEDLEY IV	HK826 HK826 PEDLEY V (**)	HK827 HK827 PEDLEY VI (**)	HK828 HK828 PEDLEY VII (**)
HK 834 Bickford $ T	HK837 Bickford $ T	HK 852  Continental dollar Restrike ca 1961 - with "S" as per HK note
HK867 COLORADO I  (** )	HK868 COLORADO II	HK869  COLORADO III	HK870 COLORADO IV
HK 871   United Nationd Ducatoon For years ascribed to Medallic Arts Co. Recently credited as follows: One of only 750 examples of this so-called dollar struck in silver by Coin Associates, Inc., a company created by Abe Kosoff and Hans Schulman in 1945 for the purpose of issuing patterns of a proposed international coinage. The  1945 date fits with the  resemblence to the 1946 "Utopia" dollar	HK911  VICTORY	HK917 FREEDOM - SIZE 22
Not in HK: COMMEMORATIVE AND EXPOSITION MEDALS OF LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
Alaska  - 10th Anniversary  of Statehood	Hawaii  - 15th Anniversary  of Statehood	Colorado - Rotary club	1970 Stone Mountain
1984 Louisiana   WORLD EXPO
Not in HK: Industrial & others	1958 Bay West Paper Company,   Green Bay Wisconson  Dollar sized silver medal     by the Medalic Arts Co., NY	"Hour a Day Club" 25 Year Member Awarded to  John S. Addison 1933 - 1958 Numismatic mystery: What was Mr. Addison doing for an "Hour a Day" for 25 years?	1961 Mercedes Benz 75th Anniversary
	Bay West Paper Company, a Green Bay, Wisconsin paper towel and tissue manufacturer was acquired by Mosinee Paper Mills Company in 1928.   Now located in Harrodsburg KY , it transacts business as Bay West Paper Corp See  http://www.baywestpaper.com/ accessed 3/26/2007.
1982 Lawrence Livermore Lab  .999 Silver Bullion Coin 1.40 oz. 39.8 g.  eBay 2009 (8 sold) Edge: MACO (Medallic Art Co.)		(**)  1982 -1985   Lawrence Livermore Pirate Medallion
"Monetary"  issues
Mattole Free State  2007 10 Petols Edge: ONE OZ. 999 FINE SILVER Featured in World Coin News Article March 2008 and  micronations. - Purchased from Ken Young 2008	NORFED "Libety" dollar  (National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code) This "coin" was WAY OVERPRICED at about $120 on EBAY - with an estimated 10,000 issued before it was Popularized by FBI raid  on NORFED. Ron Paul unofficial 20 dollars	Maui Trade Dollar 2001	Obv: Common Wealth of the Nations Silver Exchange Unit  1 Troy Ounce    .999 fine silver Rev:: International  Exchange Unit        1 Troy Ounce Ca. 2004
1981 One Silver Trade Unit From silver fornerly stored  at the U.S. Assay Office. San Francisco Bruce U.S. X 127	One  Ounce Silver Ingot ca. 1990 Johnson Matthey Serial # 927624
HK999 H.G.SAMPSON (**) 1776-INDEPENDENCE 91 BUSHWICK, BKLYN   NY-NY 269 F	ANHEUSER BUSCH EAGLE BOX CAR (SQUARE)    (**) STL 1 F	CHICAGO EVENING JNL. (**)  SALOON BLD     Chi 26 F	F.C. KEY & Co. P (**) ENN. VOLUNTEERS 329 ARCH ST.     Rulau Pa-Ph 181
DRITTES AMRICANISHES (**) N.Y. ARMS HEADLESS EAGLE    Rulau NY-NY C61 F	FRANKLIN FIRE CO. (**) WASHINGTON FIRE #12/1792     Pa-Ph 85 F	CAMEL Cigarettes. This piece  refers to the 1913 advertising campaign by  N.W. Ayers who was paid $250.000 to introduce the Camel  brand on behalf  of R.J. Reynolds. From the style, I suspect a much later origin unrelated to RJR.
Coin related
Redbook 1986 - 40th  edition	1991 ANA CENTENNIAL	Russ Rulau - 50 Years  in Numismatics    Pobjoy Mint   Kindly presented to me by Mr. Rulau	The Money Company Calling Coin - 20 units - (serial number redacted) American national Phone Coin RCU Long Distance Company
Green Duck Co. Chicago (**) Greenburg and Duckheisel founders. later the Lincoln Mint mamufacturer, inter alia, of ANA convention badges. From "Numismatist" Sept 1973. p 1606