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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy9, post: 599037, member: 8360&quot;]My first coin purchased was picked from the local coin shop&#039;s &quot;junk silver&quot; box back when I was a paperboy in the mid seventies. I liked the coin because it was &quot;old&quot;. it was a 1784 French Ecu that had &quot;H. B. BACON NOV. 26 1876&quot; hand carved into the face of it. It really never fit into anything I collect and I sold it to a friend a couple of years ago. I never really missed it until he gave a talk at the last club meeting on &quot;Foreign American Coinage&quot;, those coins that were legal tender in the early days of the United States.&nbsp; He had a round table type talk where he passed around the coins that he talked about. Sure enough, there was that first purchase of mine. He offered to sell it back to me but it really seemed to belong with that special collection of period coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Richard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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