Found a BRYAN DOLLAR in a sidewalk dig today!!

[GavinoGambino]

Got a BIG surprise on my lunch break today...

Checking out a sidewalk tear up in St. Paul and this guy popped out to say hello.

1896



***UPDATE*** Ok guys here are some photos of the coin cleaned up a bit!

 

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[Ron (CA)]

WOW- That had to be a surprise for sure!! Cool!

 

[Vdubguy]

That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I've never even heard of those before. I just had a history lesson via Google! Haha. So is the one you found actually silver? I read some were made with other metals.

Great find!

HH

Vdubguy

 

[Doubter in MD]

Banner in my book. Cool history.

 

[UnderMiner]

Very interesting history behind this "coin". They made ones out of silver too as a protest against the government issuing a 90% silver dollar of 412.5 grains while a gold dollar was equal in value to a piece of 90% silver weighing 823 grains. It meant that if you kept your savings in US silver dollars you were being screwed as the gold dollars were worth almost twice as much in metal content.

The size of your coin represents what a true silver american dollar should have looked like to equal a dollars worth of gold.

 

[GavinoGambino]

This is most definitely not made of silver haha. I read they made them out of quite a few different types of metals. I think mine has mostly nickel, lead and zinc. Its corroded pretty bad around the edges.

 

[sutphin]

Wow Gambino done pulled up a coin I don't know , dang thing must be 3 inches round and made of ?vanzutphen

 

[RobRieman]

That is really cool. Learned something new on that one!

 

[Chizzy]

Amazing find........great recognition by you........

Would love to see it cleaned up a bit..............

 

[qaela4]

That is awesome, great score!

 

[1320]

A good clean up and some better pictures will likely get some banner votes.....

 

[kingskid1611]

That is a very interesting find. Congrats!

 

[GavinoGambino]

Id love to clean it up and get a better look at this beast just as much as you guys, but i dont know what its made out of! Im afraid if i clean it wrong ill ruin it. Ive taken a brush to it and that got the surface dirt but its still pretty dirty. Anyone have any safe ideas for cleaning it?

 

[joeyo]

Dude, I've been eyeing those trearouts....

 

[coinman123]

Really awesome find, in fact, maybe better than a real silver dollar IMHO.
Bryan Money`
The Election of 1896

 

[Erik in NJ]

I suppose you could try a bit of aluminum jelly on a small spot for a couple minutes and see if that works--just a possible cleaning method...be careful with it! I've had some good success with it cleaning old spoons and other items. Not sure how rare or valuable this thing is. Have you tried warm hydrogen peroxide first?

 

[shoague]

Very cool find. Thanks for the lesson too

 

[DiggerGal]

That is one HUGE coin!!! Extremely interesting one too! Congratulations!!!!!

 

[The Aluminum Monster]

I absolutely walked into this thread thinking it was going to be a post from somewhere NOT United States. What a great find and thank you for forcing me to learn something! Would love to see it cleaned up.

I imagine a silver one of those would explode your ears off your head.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice find.