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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim-P, post: 7655695, member: 118020&quot;]Out of the archives...</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandmother was a casual collector, mostly interesting coins from circulation.&nbsp; She even sent some coins in for review to Alan Herbert in <i>Numismatic News Weekly</i> in 1973 (no real errors).&nbsp; She thought Barr bills were going to be big and apparently mailed in to this advertisement, as I now have a set of five in plastic note holders as described in this ad and some newspaper clippings about the anticipated rarity.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316160[/ATTACH] </p><p>But what blows my mind is the reverse side of the page:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316161[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;ve got half a dozen or so uncirculated Morgans that I don&#039;t remember where I got them.&nbsp; Thinking she might have responded to this ad, too.&nbsp; The ones in question are common dates but nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to the collectors and those of you that may have responded to ads like this in the early &#039;70s!</p><p><br /></p><p>(sorry about the piece-together but I was tearing up some old envelopes when I realized this was in one!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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