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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 7852746, member: 31286&quot;][ATTACH=full]1352522[/ATTACH] I wanted a coin from the Charlotte NC mint because family members had recently moved there and I was looking around in coin shops and getting interested in the history of Charlotte, the mint and gold mining.&nbsp; An 1840C half eagle came up at a reputable dealer&#039;s site - someone I&#039;d bought double eagle&#039;s from before - at a good price, a very love XF45.&nbsp; So I bought it, wound up learning more about the Charlotte Mint and realized that 1840 being a year with many first issues and with only one Eagle&nbsp; - minted in Philly, that it might be good year to try and complete a gold mint set.&nbsp; Now I&#039;ve completed the gold and most of the rest of an 1840 mint set with nice collector grade pieces - average grade probably AU50.&nbsp; There are many interesting issues from that year including the 1840(O) half dollar (no mint mark, reverse of 39) definitely minted in New Orleans. Has no mint mark because the shifted the mint mark to the reverse that year but the New Orleans mint didn&#039;t have a new reverse die to use until later in the year.&nbsp; I love stories like that.&nbsp; Now if only I didn&#039;t have to think about the slaves that no doubt built those Southern mints and/or were exploited and brutalized by the people who used those coins. Terrible, sad, no words can express the scope of that tragedy and the fallout we have yet today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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