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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 658510, member: 9270&quot;]The last coins I posted (#6) were 5-cent coins (nickels) in copper-nickel.</p><p>Unless you are <u>REALLY</u> into Shield or Liberty V nickels they don&#039;t get a lot respect.</p><p>Their designs are a bit mundane to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But prior to CuNi nickels the Mint was striking coins of 5-cent face value in silver and labeled &quot;Half Dimes&quot;.</p><p>(Actually the production of Shield nickels and Seated Liberty half dimes overlapped for 8 years, 1866 to 1873.)</p><p>Off the top of my head this and dollars are the only coins of the same face value to be struck in two distinctly different metals. Yes, I&#039;m ignoring alloys like in the early IHCs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plus half dimes were struck into the Liberty Seated or Seated Liberty design era (your choice of descriptor).</p><p>This, like most of the rest of the SL series, resulted in a number of major varieties.</p><p>In the case of the half dime the varieties totaled five.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s some of mine:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1834-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1837-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1840-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1847-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1853-Arr-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1873s-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1837-Final-txt.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1837-Final-txt.jpg" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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