Recently snagged this one for 100 bucks...my best friend is native Hawaiian, and he has gotten me quite interested in Hawaiian history over the years, so when I saw it, I had to have it.
Yeah, I assumed it was cleaned when I bought it, but for 100 bucks I couldn't complain. Doesn't bother me when people share their coins, mine is definitely cleaned, looks like it was thumbed pretty heavily to be honest.
Just a few random thoughts: The Hawaii coinage is a challenging series to assemble, but a fantastic piece of history. For the last few years, I haven't seen as many of the Hawaii coins as I did in years past. I don't know why. The higher grade examples attract attention on bourse floors, for sure. There is a really quick way to distinguish the Chinese counterfeit Hawaii ten cent coins from genuine coins. Genuine coins have 120-something reeds and the Chinese counterfeits have around 80-95 unevenly spaced reeds and coarse die chips on the mustache and close to the "II" of HAWAII. IMHO, the Hawaii coins are some of Barber's best designs.
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