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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NSP, post: 3234035, member: 74849&quot;]I think it’s a VF20, and a nice example of a popular variety. As many may know, the STATESOF reverse was used to strike more dimes in 1820 (JR-1). </p><p><br /></p><p>According to the Early United States Dimes book, the STATESOF die was sold for scrap sometime in the 1830s. In 1962, it ended up in the hands of Robert Bashlow (of CSA restrike fame), who proceeded to take the die to Scotland, where he made several hundred impressions of the die. When he attempted to return to the United States, Customs seizes the impressions and the STATESOF die, and fined Bashlow $100. According to the book, the curator of the Smithsonian asked the Treasury agents to save the historic die, but they destroyed the die and the impressions anyway. There must not have been anything terribly earth-shattering going on in 1962, because evidently a 148 year old die was a major problem for the Federal Government....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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