

United States
1 Dollar "Trade Dollar" · “Trade Dollar”
United States · 1873–1885 · Silver
The coin
The story
The Trade Dollar: a U.S. coin made to win Asia, then disowned at home
In 1876 the United States did something it had never done before and has never done since: it told Americans that a coin still in their pockets was no longer money. That coin was the Trade Dollar — built to beat the Mexican peso in the markets of China, and then abandoned by the country that minted it.
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