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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 412877, member: 66&quot;]What you guys are missing on the Nova Constellatio piece is that you are looking at the coppers that were actually issued for circulation.&nbsp; The eBay piece is a modern copy of one of Govenour Morris&#039;s pattern pieces from his original coinage proposal where he proposed to divide the Spanish milled dollar into 1440 &quot;units&quot; because by doing that it was possible to rapidly convert prices into twelve of the thirteen colonies official &quot;money of account&quot;.&nbsp; He had patterns produced in England to illustrate his new coinage idea in denominations of 1000 units (two different reverse designs), 500, 100 and 5 units.&nbsp; (one of the 1000 and the 5 unit coins are unique.&nbsp; For a long time all but the 5 units were known and John J Ford had the rest of the set.&nbsp; Then the 5 unit turned up in England in I believe 1982 and Ford reassembled the set for the first time since 1783.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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