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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 449018, member: 15062&quot;]One of my Great-Grandfathers was a wealthy farmer in Indiana in the mid to late 1800&#039;s.&nbsp; I have a diary he kept with some of his financial dealings in it.&nbsp; He paid temporary hired hands 50 cents per day (sunup to sundown) plus room and board.&nbsp; Aside from growing crops, he dealt largely in hogs.&nbsp; I know he must have been paid with gold coins occasionally because when he died in 1913, leaving an estate worth $30,000 (about $3 million today), one of his gold&nbsp; pieces went to my Grandmother and I got it from her.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was an 1838 half eagle.&nbsp; I say &quot;was&quot; because it was stolen from me in 1978.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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