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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2906494, member: 10461&quot;]No, the ghosting carries no special premium, unless you find someone who really, really wants it.&nbsp; It&#039;s one of those&nbsp; fun added features on a coin that make it more interesting but not really more valuable in any kind of measurable way.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, a &quot;cent&quot; is a decimal coin worth 1/100th of a unit.&nbsp; Those old pre-decimal pennies are not &quot;cents&#039;.&nbsp; They&#039;re &quot;pennies&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Confusingly, you <i>could</i> call the modern decimal British pennies a &quot;cent&quot; (though nobody does), since they&#039;re 1/100 of a British pound, but these old pre-decimal ones, no.&nbsp; They are strictly large <i>pennies,</i> not large <i>cents</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the flip side of the way the US coin gets called a &quot;penny&quot; when it&#039;s really a &quot;cent&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two terms have gotten hopelessly entangled over the past two centuries.&nbsp; But they do mean different things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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