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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 843576, member: 112&quot;]Marshall, just so you understand. As Matt explained, by the time the gold coins in this thread were minted there were no US coins being struck on previously minted coins or tokens. In fact I&#039;m pretty sure that the practice ended in the US around 1800.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before that the mint had a very hard time getting planchets or metal to make planchets. So they did what they could and used what they could get. </p><p><br /></p><p>But after that, it never happened again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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