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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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keith12, that is a beautiful half dollar with plenty of eye-appeal.
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: keith12, that is a beautiful half dollar with plenty of eye-appeal. Yea I got it from ebay maybe 15 years ago Raw "MS60" sent it to PCGS 2 years ago They disagreed. This is why if I'm spending over $75.00 on a coin now it has to be in a slab. In fact most of the coins I Buy now are slabbed
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United Kingdom
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Italy wasn't unified in 1858. Here's a 10 Tornesi from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples & Sicily): 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
Edited by paralyse 07/01/2020 11:16 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by mikev50 07/02/2020 12:19 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
1857 marks the start of the large cents for the United States, and the start of the Half Cents as well.  
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The only other 1857 I've got is this nice original Liberty Seated dime. Crusty but solid VG+.  
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
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Love the Flying Eagle cents and Gobrecht Seated Liberty coinage - the plain and elegant mid 19th century designs do more for me than Barber and Morgan sorry. And I believe we will start to see Large cents and Half Cents again soon. The Tornesi is an interesting piece too - I am sure that King also had some stamps issued in the late 1850s (Ferdinand) and he considered himself a looker, so beautiful he made cancelling his face harshly on the stamps a priosnable offense! Here is my sole 1857 submission, a very small but cute one.   A Maundy penny of Victoria - the strange thing about it, is that its only VF and fairly grubby, meaning it probably entered circulation for a short time!
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Nice Maundy Penny, Princetane!  Some British copper and silver for 1857: Farthing:  Halfpenny:  Threepence (detector find):  Shilling: 
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1857 -- Bank of Upper Canada, 1 pennny:  
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1857 -- French (2nd) Empire, 20 francs:  
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