Silver Dollar Gift Store Overview
The Silver Dollar Gift Store was a Georgia-based retailer of privately issued silver bullion and commemorative rounds during the early 2000s. The business is documented as the original seller and distributor of the 2002 Confederate Silver Dollar, marketing the piece through an online storefront hosted on DixieRising.com. Surviving archived webpages identify the company as the retail outlet for the round, providing original product descriptions, pricing, and photographs. No evidence has been located indicating that the Silver Dollar Gift Store manufactured coins; its documented role was that of issuer and distributor.
Location: Georgia, United States
Years of Operation: Documented: 2003–2005
The Silver Dollar Gift Store is first documented offering the Confederate Silver Dollar in April 2003 and remained active on archived DixieRising.com pages through at least March 2005.
Roles:
- Issuer
- Distributor
- Online Retailer
Known Products: 2002 Confederate Silver Dollar (1 oz .999 fine silver)
Silver Dollar Gift Store Attribution
The Silver Dollar Gift Store operated as the commercial outlet for the Confederate Silver Dollar, with sales conducted through the DixieRising.com website. Archived product pages include original specifications, symbolism, retail pricing, and product photography, establishing the company as the documented issuer and distributor of the series. Although later secondary sources commonly attribute manufacture of the round to Northwest Territorial Mint, no surviving period-original documentation identifies the manufacturer.
Silver Dollar Gift Store Notes
The Confederate Silver Dollar was advertised at $20.00 each or $18.00 each when purchasing five or more. The product pages describe the symbolism of both the obverse and reverse and identify the designer only as a great-grandnephew of Confederate cavalry officer John Singleton Mosby. Independent numismatic research later identified the designer as Henri Klingler of Jesup, Georgia.
Silver Dollar Gift Store References
- DixieRising.com, Silver Dollar Gift Store (archived April 2003)
- Wayback Machine archive of DixieRising.com product pages (March 8, 2005)
- Chiefa Coins, Confederate States of America article
Coins from Silver Dollar Gift Store (Georgia) (1)
