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 Posted 03/21/2025  1:43 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bobh to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Looking at the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins...iian_dollar, there are some reference numbers: e.g. the 1883 50 cent piece is designated "CS-4".

Where do these numbers come from? I only have Breen / K.M. / and nothing else for Hawaiian coinage.
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 Posted 03/21/2025  2:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fortcollins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There is a reference book for Hawaii coins, tokens, and medals. My guess is that the number comes from this catalog.

Donald Medcalf and Ronald Russell, Hawaiian Money Standard Catalog (self-published, 2d ed. 1991). Here are the catalog numbers to help locate the book: The ASIN is B0079UPQVW, ISBN-10 is #8206;0962326305, and ISBN-13 is 978-096232630. There is also a website called the Hawaiiana Numismatist. Hope this helps!
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 Posted 03/21/2025  2:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobh to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@fortcollins: Thanks!
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 Posted 04/09/2025  7:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add deadmunny to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
fortcollins is correct. I have looked it up in my Metcalf/Russell catalog.

CS-1 is the dime
CS-2 is the 1/8 dollar
CS-3 is the quarter
CS-4 is the half
CS-5 is the dollar.

Note: What's interesting is I won this out-of-print book in a CCF contest here. :-)
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Yay! It was just a guess on my part.

I'm glad you found the answer. I'll warn you, though: niche books like that can be addictive and lead to beginning all kinds of new collections.
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 Posted 04/10/2025  2:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobh to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@fortcollins: I agree! (been there, done that...)

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