2014 Silver 35mm Joseph Lesher $50 Trade Token NGC MS69
Joseph Lesher owned a silver mine near Victor, Colorado circa 1900. To promote the use of silver, he produced octagonal one-ounce silver souvenir medals, and distributed them through local merchants until the Secret Service put an end to his activities.
This is famous Colorado minter Daniel Carr's modern restrike of the famed Lesher Dollar. The modern examples are the same shape and approximately the same size as Lesher's originals. Carr’s pieces are .999 fine silver and weigh about 27 grams. On the obverse, the 2014 Lesher dollars carry a symbolic $50 face value and feature a small portrait of Joseph Lesher among design elements. The traditional mining scene from the Lesher Originals is on the reverse and each piece is individually numbered.
This example has light russet toning, clean and lustrous surfaces, and is housed in an NGC MS69 slab.