'wholesome' Undated And Plugged Higley Copper Tops $20,000

CoinWorld - Before the first U.S. coins were struck for widespread circulation at the Philadelphia Mint in 1793, a wide variety of coins circulated in America including a mix of foreign coins and Colonial and Confederation issues. The broad label of "Colonial issues" encompasses multiple major types, and most people's introduction to this area comes through A Guide Book of United States coins — the " Red Book" — which lists major varieties. Specialists have gone into exhaustive detail in each of these areas, and the coins aren't always pretty. Here are three that were offered by Stack's Bowers Galleries at the Whitman Baltimore Expo that show that these historically important issues don't have to be attractive to be very expensive.



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