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rrantique

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  1. Dwaine, seeing that is attracting me towards Morgans...

     

    Here's a new one, well, old, but new... HOOT, I'm gonna need your help with this one.

     

     

    Wow Mike nice coin here is a little tidbit on it. cloud9.gifthumbsup2.gif

     

    Breen quoting."This coin was made by the Birmingham token manufacturer Obadiah Westwood, and engraved by child prodigy John Gregory Hancock, Sr. Issued in order to win the contract for coinage in America, Breen estimates that a cask containing 2,500 large eagle and 1,500 small eagle cents was shipped to Philadelphia to the Westwood's representatives, Thomas Ketland & Sons for distribution to cabinet officials, dignitaries, senators and other VIP's. Some of these coins found an audience with President Washington, who rejected the proposal as "monarchial" and also noted that he was against contract coinage of any kind, especially from outside the country."