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<p>[QUOTE="ericl, post: 1818648, member: 2697"]notice the date: 1947. <a href="http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1946-1951-booker-t-washington-half-dollar/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1946-1951-booker-t-washington-half-dollar/" rel="nofollow">http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1946-1951-booker-t-washington-half-dollar/. </a></p><p>The reason that everyone erroneously thinks that this is "worthless" is that the 1946 (P) coins were common and the majority were put into circulation. They kept on minting them in sets that sold almost nothing until 1951 (for some reason they minted a bunch in 1950 and '51). </p><p><br /></p><p>To conclude: If <font size="4"><b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/kforbes862.32069/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/kforbes862.32069/">kforbes862</a> </b>had gotten a 1946 BTW in the exact same condition, most here would have 100% right. B<font size="4">ut this is not a 1946, it's a '47. The date makes all the difference, <font size="4">as we all should know. </font></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ericl, post: 1818648, member: 2697"]notice the date: 1947. [URL='http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1946-1951-booker-t-washington-half-dollar/']http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1946-1951-booker-t-washington-half-dollar/. [/URL] The reason that everyone erroneously thinks that this is "worthless" is that the 1946 (P) coins were common and the majority were put into circulation. They kept on minting them in sets that sold almost nothing until 1951 (for some reason they minted a bunch in 1950 and '51). To conclude: If [SIZE=4][B][URL='http://www.cointalk.com/members/kforbes862.32069/']kforbes862[/URL] [/B]had gotten a 1946 BTW in the exact same condition, most here would have 100% right. B[SIZE=4]ut this is not a 1946, it's a '47. The date makes all the difference, [SIZE=4]as we all should know. [/SIZE][/SIZE][B][I][/I][/B][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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