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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bikergeek, post: 24566132, member: 112428&quot;]I&#039;m a bust half dime fan and I see a fair amount of holed coins. In fact, there&#039;s a unique baby busty - the 1830 LM-9.3 - that has a hole in it. But now, anyone who aspires to have a complete set of all die marriages / remarriages (as I do) either has to talk the owner out of it, or find another instance of it. Long odds on either of those. So, that holey half dime is probably worth more than anything I currently own!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am told that people would use the little coins as buttons, which may account for some of those oddball ones that have 2 or even 4 holes in them. And of course, people used them as charms on a bracelet. But what I wonder is: how many of them were worn superstitiously as charms (for good luck, or to ward off evil spirits and the like)? I was reading a book sometime in the last year or two that mentioned that kind of thing. But although I made a mental note to save that passage and look into that a bit, I didn&#039;t follow through and I&#039;ve forgotten what book it was. :-([/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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