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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 920341, member: 6036&quot;]Immediately upon reading &quot;The Declining Fall of the Roaming Umpire&quot; by Claudius Minimus, I decided to do something totally new and original - throw down some coin pics and have you heavy hittahs throw down opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>This time, a special treat - <b>my #1 girlfriend Anne Bingham</b>, model for the Draped Bust design which debuted in 1796. Perhaps our most beautiful design ever, and certainly the most delightfully feminine. A raving beauty of her day, she was a well educated socialite, moved in the highest circles of the Grand American Experiment, and wed wealthy William Bingham, namesake of Binghamton, New York.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today&#039;s coin is from 1803, the year Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase. And this is how we paid for it - with half dollars, not silver dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1803, most coins for domestic circulation were heavily used in commerce. Considering the light wear, it&#039;s quite possible this is one of the coins sent to Europe to sit around in a bank vault in payment for all that crawfish etoufee in New Orleans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any opinions as to grade and attribution ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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