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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 1409789, member: 21705&quot;]Besides all the usual suspects for gouges in coins, the old ones started out at a time that a copper coin was useful as hardware since there were few hardware stores around. You can find them as gears, buttons. washers or perhaps to level the feet of a cook stove. </p><p><br /></p><p>And foreign coinage was actually common in colonial and early America because US coinage rarely made it out of New England (and England as souveneers). Eleswhere, they made do with whatever they could find well into the 19th century. In the east, Brittish and Hibernian; in Louisiana, French and in Florida, Texas and the west, Spanish were common into the early 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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