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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 447647, member: 66&quot;]Pretty good but not quite true.Spanish milled dollars were legal tender from 1793 - 1801, 1806 - 1809, and 1843 to 1857.&nbsp; Spanish COLONIAL milled dollars were legal tender from 1834 to 1843 from Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Central America, and from Mexico only from 1843 to 1857.&nbsp; NO Spanish dollar, home or colonial, were legal tender from 1810 to 1834. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True if you restrict it to circulation coins.&nbsp; The 1984 Olympic dollar also had a lettered edge.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And was the first building built for the US Government</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since 1980.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unless they were struck using an&quot;open collar&quot; with a lettered edge in which case there are four dies, obv, rev, and two edge dies, or the Saint-Gaudens eagle, and double eagle which used five, obv, rev, and a three collar dies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silver dollars or Mexican Pesos?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Read it again, as long as you are not trying to fraudulently pass the coin it is perfectly legal.&nbsp; One exception is if you have placed advertising on it (different section of the law).&nbsp; So counterstamping your business name or placing a sticker with your company name etc on the coin and then spending it is NOT legal,</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, ALL of the Saint-Gaudens double eagles have edge lettering.&nbsp; There may be a pattern or two that don&#039;t, I don&#039;t remember.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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