Early Dollar trivia question

[Coinosaurus]

What is the first coin to have the word "dollar" on it? Hint: not a US coin.

[EVillageProwler]

I am stumped, but am not giving up...

 

EVP

 

[PQSeated]

Is it a colonial coin?

[Coinosaurus]

It is not a colonial coin. I will post the answer tomorrow night. The coin weighed 408 grains, with 340 grains of pure silver.

[EVillageProwler]

Is it a Pillar Dollar?

[swhuck]

1804 Dollar -- Bank of England style?

[PovertyRow]

Could you be referring (with a stretch) to the Joachimstalers?

[PovertyRow]

OK - one more shot - are you referring to the 1767 Maryland currency? And this is from a comic guy!

[PovertyRow]

and one more - the 15th century Austrian Thaler (not "dollar" though) - I believe the Maryland currency was the first official use of the exact word "dollar"?

[davefperry]

It was British if I remember correctly. Maybe some form of early trade dollar?

 

Edited to add that England minted dollar coins for British Guiana and emergency issue dollars in the 1790's but I couldn't find a pic.

[tgilliams]

it was an early roman coin

[Coinosaurus]

Folks, the answer is a dollar coin issued by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. See John Willem ("The United States Trade Dollar"), page 2. Awesome book, by the way.

 

The Sierra Leone company was a colony of freed slaves on the west coast of Africa.

[agfox-migration]

Sierra Leone

 

Very dangerous place. That's where the blood diamonds have been coming from for years. Very bad..