The 1884 Trade dollar is one of the rarest coins in the United States series. Only 25,000 coins were minted, and most of them were melted down for their silver content. Today, there are only about 500 known examples of the 1884 Trade dollar.
Due to its rarity, the 1884 Trade dollar is a valuable coin. In recent years, it has sold for prices ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.
The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo on July 28, 1914 was the fuse for the outbreak of the First World War. The original intention of the Austrian commander-in-chief Marshal Konrad was to concentrate his main forces around Lemberg (present-day Lviv, Ukraine). From
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