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The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 20, 2025, Article 5

VIDEO: HISTORY BEHIND THE TRADE DOLLAR

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2009 with Andrew Caletti speaking about the U.S. Trade Dollar. -Editor

 

By the mid-19th century, international trade in the Orient was booming. America needed an export outlet in its silver and a coin to aid its traders in the Orient. Find out why the U.S. Trade dollar was created and why its lifespan was so short. Andrew Caletti is the ANA's 2009 Harry W. Bass Numismatic Intern.

Speaker(s): Andrew Caletti, ANA Bass Intern.

  The Commercial Dollar Proposed

To watch the complete video, see:
History Behind the Trade Dollar: The Harry Bass Collection (https://youtu.be/AdjFrK5Y2Es)
History Behind the Trade Dollar: The Harry Bass Collection (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/557330)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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