Contents


JOHN M. KLEEBERG (American Numismatic Society)
Introduction

ERIC P. NEWMAN (St. Louis, MO)
The Dollar Sign: Its Written and Printed Origin

JULES REIVER (Wilmington, DE)
The Early United States Silver Dollars

KENNETH BRESSETT (Colorado Springs, CO)
1795 United States Silver Dollar with Official Plug

ROBERT STARK (University of Delaware, Newark)
Countermarked and Overstruck Early U.S. Dollars

A. GEORGE MALLIS (Wilbraham, MA)
The Development of the 1878 Morgan Silver Dollars

JOHN M. KLEEBERG (American Numismatic Society)
The Silver Dollar as an Element of International Trade: A Study in Failure

Appendix 1
ERIC P. NEWMAN
A Restated Opinion on the Origin of the 1804 Dollar and the 1804 Eagle Proofs

Appendix 2
JOHN M. KLEEBERG
A Pair of Morgan Dollar Dies in the Collection of the American Numismatic Society