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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 5184896, member: 101855&quot;]Roger Burdette wrote that the claim $3 gold coins were made to buy 100 postage stamps was not true. He cited that they were produced to facilitate making change with in $1, $2.50 and $5 gold coin series. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Three Cent Piece, that has some logic. When the postage was dropped to 3 cents in the 1850s, post offices would have needed large cents to make change. Large cents did not circulate all that well outside of the large cities. Therefore the Three Cent Piece made sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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