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The Pheasant Run Lodge Morgan dollar depicts a man’s sword lifting a rather large lady’s dress. These kind of stickered dollars are hard to come by and are extremely collectable due to there none standard content. Anytime a sticker is more than text it pulls a much larger premium. The more exciting the image the more collectors will want to own it. I’ve personally never seen another one of these coins.
History:
The Pheasant Run Lodge opened in 1963 and was built to be a entertainment resort for people in and around Chicago looking to get away for a vacation. These adult themed coins would have been created as a gift shop item in the mid 1960s. The resort is still operational today.
Sticker for the Pheasant Run Lodge in St. Charles Illinois on Morgan Silver Dollar
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This coin is pretty rare as I have only seen this one coin. The banner sticker for this coin is the common banner, but contains a rather unique landmark. While I would much prefer to have a perfect sticker, this coin in my eyes is highly collectable.
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I would love to know the history of this coin. I’ve done some research on the town of Massadona and I don’t believe the town currently exists. The closest town from Massadona is Dinosaur Co, which is about 20 miles away. I think that back during the 1950s there might have been a gas station/camp ground that might have created these coins as a way to advertise.
Morgan Silver dollar with Souvenir Of Massadona Colo. Silver Dollar sticker.
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These stickered dollars are one of the most common dollars that can be found. The sticker contains the common banner with the words “Souvenir of Calico Ghost Town”. This is a coin that most every stickered dollar collector will have in their collection. When purchasing this coin make sure the sticker is in excellent condition.
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During the late 1880s the town of Calico was surrounded by more than 500 silver mines and produced over $20 million in silver ore. Town was abandoned after the price of silver plummeted and Calico became a ghost town. During the 1950s the deserted town was purchased and restored by Walter Knott. Calico Ghost town is still open and is located in California.
These stickered dollars were sold in the gift shop as a souvenir.
Peace Dollar with Souvenir Of Calico Ghost Town Sticker.
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This coin is interesting because it contains a unique banner which is unlike most banner stickers you will find. This sticker has wedged ends on the red portion of the banner vs. the very common straight edged banner. Also the waving pattern on this sticker is more desirable because the banner ripple is convex vs. the very typical concave pattern with most banner stickers.
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The Powder House Lodge was established in 1948 and is still in operation today. This sticker was most likely from the 1950s. The lodge is actually located just north of Keystone in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is most likely that these coins were either sold in the gift shop or were given as change in the Powder House restaurant located at the lodge.
Powder House Lodge Black Hills South DAK with unique wedged banner.
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This coin is in great condition, but the sticker is showing some wear. It is common for peace dollars to first wear, where the wings meet the body of the bird…. at the shoulders of the bird.
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Bob’Bin-Inn was a restaurants and possibly a hotel located on Melrose Ave. in Hollywood. They also had a restaurant that opened at 6:00 am and severed pizza. They have since closed. There is now an Asian Glass shop, internet cafe, and Melrose cafe located in the building that once housed the Bob’bin-inn.
Bob’Bin-Inn Pizza’s Peace Dollar with wearing on wings of Eagle.
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This coin is one of the top ones in my collection and I got it for a steal of a price. The dealer wanted $40 for it and I was not sure because the sticker was so small and did not have a unique image on it. I almost did not buy it. I had walked out of the coin show to leave and I had only purchased one coin. We had been there for a very long time and as we walked out my 3 sons were talking about what they had picked up, and on a whim I decided to head back in and buy it. I am glad I did. This documented history on this coin is really great.
The coin was sealed in a cardboard coin holder that was quite old. When I got it home to move it to an airtight holder I was sick to my stomach when the sticker about popped off the coin. Come to find out there were two stickers with the one on the bottom firmly attached, and in excellent condition. I can just imagine one of the people in the 1950s putting stickers on coins when they realized they had zoned out and accidentally skipped one of the coins. That being the case they carefully stuck one sticker on top of another so their counts would come out right! Anyway I am pleased to own this little piece of American military history. 169th Fighter Squadron Payday Silver Dollar History:
This dollar was a dollar paid to Air National Gard members in Peoria Illinois. The Air National Gard was new and the town folk were not sure they wanted all the young GIs running around their town. There was a banker that was a member of the 169th and he suggested that all the GIs get paid in silver dollars with gold stickers on them. That way the people would know that there was a lot of new money entering the community. There were a total of 55k coins made. I think the number left are in the 100s.
Please read here if you want some more information: link
Here is a large Quote from the link above:
To show the community the economic impact of the IL ANG(Air National Gard), years ago personnel were paid with marked dollars. Tell about that study and the result.
When the unit was formed in 1947, the airport was owned by the Peoria Park District and the operating budget for the airport was very small. There was no airport authority as we know it today. The hierarchy of airport leadership at that time did not really have a good appreciation of the Air National Guard or what a unit could do for the community economically. After all, this new entity – the United States Air Force – was just beginning and people were unaware of what it was all about.
One of the founders of the unit was Art Szold, a man well known throughout the Peoria area and a person who has been very active in helping make Peoria better. Art was the commander and he and the others worked hard to increase membership to have the unit federally recognized.
In 1950 Art felt strongly that he needed to do something to make the community aware of the guard and what the economic impact was on the community. One of the members was a banker and suggested one was to improve the community’s awareness of the guard’s impact was to pay unit members with silver dollars – and circulate them throughout the community.
Then people would see silver dollars being passed around and ask where they came from and why. The trick, however, was to mark these silver dollars so that people knew these were new dollars coming into the community from the federal government to meet the payroll for the guard unit.
Art contacted Fleming and Potter and they donated a supply of small gold strips that could be temporarily affixed to the coins. They marked about 55,000 silver dollars with the gold strip. They actually brought a truck to the base with a teller cage mounted on the trailer. They dispersed the payroll that month in silver dollars from the back of the truck.
Art’s only direction to the ANG members was to circulate the money – not necessarily spend it, but circulate it in the community the next weekend.
The following week there were silver dollars floating everywhere around town. The questions began and the community interest was great.
Just months after Art did this, it became evident there was a mine subsidence problem at the airport. Coal mines had been dug along the bluff area of Bartonville, and mining operations took place under some areas of the airport. There actually was some subsidence where concrete was settling and caving in on airport property.
This caused a great deal of concern to the National Guard Bureau in Washington D.C. and the unit was told that they would have to make arrangements somehow to get the airport directorship to fix that problem or the unit would have to be relocated to Rockford or Moline.
Because of this silver dollar experiment – and because members of the community saw the impact from the circulation of those dollars – the Association of Commerce supported and, in fact, funded a referendum which provided for the formation of the Greater Peoria Airport Authority. That entity still exists today, of course, and has done an outstanding job in improving and making sure Peoria has a viable airport.
As a result of the formation of the airport authority, the mine subsidence issue was taken care of and life goes on for the Air National Guard in Peoria. If that same silver dollar payout could be made now, we’d find ourselves dispersing, after taxes, neatly 1.2 million silver dollars per month.
We owe much to the founders of the organization, who had the foresight to win over and make the community realize how important this Air National Guard unit could be to the future of Peoria.
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The Top Hat sticker dollar is quite rare and is believed to be a casino slot machine payout dollar. This is the only one that I know of, but I am sure there are more out there.
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unknown
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Top Hat Casino Payout Silver Peace Dollar
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Note: This is a good example of a coin being rare, but the price not following. The lack of history with this coin hurts its value. This coin at auction could fetch a very large premium if the right bidders were involved. What is interesting about the sticker is that it is quite sticky, which I believe lends to its rarity. I believe most of these stickers were taken off and the coin cleaned because of how the sticker aged. This coin is sealed in an air tight holder which will keep this sticker permanently intact.
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This stickered coin looks to be a slot machine payout coin for an unknown Casino. The image is either of a burst or flower pattern and has 8 petals. Judging by the sticker it looks to be from the 1950s or early 1960s.
This coin is in great condition and the sticker is completely intact. I own several of these and have seen a few show up on ebay. By far this stickered coin is in the best condition I have seen. Most of the coins I have seen have heavily warn stickers and coins from years of passing through slot machines.
Only a small percentage of stickered coins use a transparent sticker, which is one of the things that make this coin unique and highly collectible.
History:
Most likely a casino slot machine coin.
Blue 8 Petaled Flower Sticker on back of Peace Dollar
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I have not been able to uncover the exact origin of this sticker. There are several Paradise Lounges around the country. I see that there was a Paradise Lounge in Durham N.C. back in the 1950s, but I do not know if the two are related. If you have any information or ideas on where this coin originated I would love to know. Please leave a comment.
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unknown
Sticker from Paradise Lounge on a Silver Peace Dollar
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The Lady Luck stickered dollars are some of the most common coins that can be found. This is a common coin for those starting out their collection. I have seen these stickers in $2, $2.50, $3.00, $4.50 and $5.00 denominations. There most likely are more, which based on the dollar amount on the sticker would/could substantially add to the coins value.
These coins can have several different sticker variations. Some stickers have Las Vagas Nev on them where others leave out the location all together. The images below are a good example of what you might find.
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These coins were used by the Lady Luck Casino in slot machines as payout coins. They could then be exchanged for the dollar amount. Many visitors would keep these coins as a memento of their trip.
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$3.00 Lady Luck Casino Las Vegas Nev Sticker on the back of a Morgan Silver Dollar$4.50 Lady Luck Sticker on the front of a Morgan Silver Dollar$5.50 Lady Luck Sticker on the back of a Morgan Silver Dollar
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