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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25313420, member: 101855&quot;]Here&#039;s a different 5 cent coin, the first one, the 1792 half disme. This was my first &quot;really big coin&quot; which I bought in the mid 1990s. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1617006[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Research as shown that Thomas Jefferson had 1,500 of these coins made from Spanish (probably) silver dollars that he obtained from the First Bank of the United States in mid July 1792. He took them with him when he set out by coach to his Virginia home, Monticello. Perhaps an additional 500 were struck at the first United States mint in the fall of 1792. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today there are about 325 survivors. Some of those are badly damaged or have a hole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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