Twenty Cent Tuesday -Post yours please

One Day I'll own one of these beauties . If you have one please post it .
Thanks .

 

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Seems it's getting more and more difficult to come up with these alliteration titles, huh?

 

@CoinJockey73 Yeah, but they are fun for me anyways .

 

It's your thing, brother. Keep em coming, (if you can ).

 

I have been attracted to this series since I was a young numismatist in the 1960s. Back then I strived to get the four made for circulation issues, 1875 P, CC and S, and the 1876-P, with a full "LIBERTY". I succeed in doing that although the 1876-P had some rim issues. The prices paid ranged from $20 to $100.

Today I have those (higher grade examples) plus the 1877 and '78 Proofs. I also have the 1875 and 76-P coins in Mint State and Proof. I am still a "Twenty Cent Piece nut." The 1876-CC, with less than 20 known, is beyond me. The best one I saw at a show was a very nice Mint State piece for a mere $650,000.

The cheapest one I have soon "sold" for $20,000 at an auction almost 40 years ago. I dealer sitting next to me told me that the piece had been "bought in" by the auction house and that that had happened a few times before. It was dark and not attractive.

I will post some pictures latter in the day.

 

this one has some nice color when tilted just right. the collector I bought it from had purchased it from Mark Feld. (can't find the standard obv/rev photos right now!)
found the obv/rev images, it's an 1875-P so somewhat scarce.

 

I got interested in collecting coins when I found a 1875s twenty-cent in a creek while on a Boy Scout camping trip back in 1954-1955. Also found many Stone Mountain halves [about 25] and many other coins of the early 1880s back then.

 

I got this in change back in the 50's. An old man pushing a vegetable cart down the alley gave it instead of a quarter.

 

Just sold this one. NGC MS66. By far the nicest one I ever owned.

 

Wow! Still making the same mistake 80 years later!

He “cheated” out of 5 cents and gave you a coin that was probably worth $5 or $6 back then.

 

Love these 20 cent pieces

 

Yes, and that 5 cents was a big deal back then. I had a very quick discussion with myself. What will mom say if I come back 5 cents short? I thought I would take a chance. I told mom the story and she said I better put it in my coin collection. The vendor probably got it as a quarter from someone.

 

I'm sure that the Stone Mountain was popular in your neck of the woods. Quite a few of the early commemoratives went straight to the cash registers.

 

Well its been a long time since I posted something. I do have an 1875 CC 20 cent piece. Bought this one probably 30 - 40 years ago. Great coin for show and tell sessions. I'm happy to show it to y'all. Spent too long in the safe. Rich

 

What was the rationale for the government to issue the twenty cent piece? All it did was to cause confusion exactly in the manner that Inspector43 described.

 

Latin Money union and 20 cent was one franc. It was also wanting to coin silver and get small change in the west.

The other side is that Quarters in Canada and the US are an anachronism do to basing the dollars on the 8 real

 

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