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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7311519, member: 101855&quot;]Since I have been a collector for over 60 years, I have lot of coins, tokens and medals that are favorites.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Roman coin, which is called a denarius, was issued 11 months after Julius Caesar was assassinated. It has Julius Caesar on one side and Mark Anthony, who was one of his supporters on the other. It was minted in 43 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1278092[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Putting the age of a 1947 cent in perspective, the coin is 74 years old. When I was a young collector in 1964, a 74 year old coin would have been dated 1890. I would have been jumping up and down if I had found an 1890 or any other Indian Cent in circulation. Getting a coin dated 1890 was not that tough because you still go to the bank and trade a paper dollar for a silver dollar that was older than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>These old coins probably come of out hoards of cents that people take to the bank or super market counting machines. They might have been in one of those big bottles people use to hoard cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>A cent does not have any buying power these days. Hence they don&#039;t circulate that much. In 1890, it was a big deal when a kid got one to buy some &quot;penny candy.&quot; The coins saw a lot more use in circulation, and fewer of them have survived today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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