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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 7713722, member: 116145&quot;]Thanks Fretboard, you are the token master!&nbsp; I also just picked up this neat (to me) &quot;Bryan money&quot; faux dime - which was an anti-Bryan campaign token issued for the 1896 Presidential campaign.&nbsp; A bit of history from the interwebs...&quot;In 1896, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan" rel="nofollow">William Jennings Bryan</a> ran unsuccessfully for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">President of the United States</a>. Bryan, a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">Democratic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Congress" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Congress" rel="nofollow">congressman</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska" rel="nofollow">Nebraska</a>, gained his party&#039;s presidential nomination in July of that year after electrifying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Democratic_National_Convention" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Democratic_National_Convention" rel="nofollow">Democratic National Convention</a> with his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech" rel="nofollow">Cross of Gold speech</a>. He was defeated in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election" rel="nofollow">the general election</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">Republican</a> candidate, former Ohio governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley" rel="nofollow">William McKinley</a>.&quot;[ATTACH=full]1322952[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1322953[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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