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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4726118, member: 10461"]I've had plenty of Cubans from 1916 on up as a result of bulk lot hunting, where the odds are better than from US circulation roll hunting, obviously. They're nice, despite the relative sameness of the designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aluminum coins, previously maligned as cheap "junk", are perhaps coming into their own now, and I'm glad to see it. It's a decent metal for coinage (much better than zinc and iron, for sure) and it looks quite nice when bright and lustrous. And the light weight is fun. I've seen a lot of AU-UNC aluminum from places like Italy and the French colonies that had beautiful designs and held up well in circulation, still looking very nice when I found them 50 years later in a bulk bag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4726118, member: 10461"]I've had plenty of Cubans from 1916 on up as a result of bulk lot hunting, where the odds are better than from US circulation roll hunting, obviously. They're nice, despite the relative sameness of the designs. Aluminum coins, previously maligned as cheap "junk", are perhaps coming into their own now, and I'm glad to see it. It's a decent metal for coinage (much better than zinc and iron, for sure) and it looks quite nice when bright and lustrous. And the light weight is fun. I've seen a lot of AU-UNC aluminum from places like Italy and the French colonies that had beautiful designs and held up well in circulation, still looking very nice when I found them 50 years later in a bulk bag.[/QUOTE]
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