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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;79Tiger, post: 106581, member: 4900&quot;]I&#039;m not a serious collector, but love old coins.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been going through my Mom&#039;s house recently (she died a couple of years ago at age 86) and I&#039;ve found some old coins.&nbsp; Mostly the usual...buffalo nickles, liberty dimes, silver dollars, steel WW II pennies, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I have no idea about this one.&nbsp; I&#039;m not even sure it&#039;s really a coin...maybe some type of commemorative piece or something like that.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done the basic Googling and found nothing.&nbsp; Thought I&#039;d post it here and see if anybody can help...</p><p><br /></p><p>It says &quot;Commonwealth&quot; on one side and &quot;Massachusetts&quot; on the other.&nbsp; The date appears to be 1783.&nbsp; I&#039;ve scanned it in and posted the pics on imageshack...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/72/1783coin10lc.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/72/1783coin10lc.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/72/1783coin10lc.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6153/1783coin23ic.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6153/1783coin23ic.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6153/1783coin23ic.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance for any help in identification.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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