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<p>[QUOTE="Nick Zynko, post: 4297628, member: 110450"]John this was an incredibly informative post and beautifully illustrated by your selection of pictures. My heart rate actually started to rise looking at those gold pieces! Well done Sir!</p><p> </p><p> I would think as we were just laying the building blocks of our our Government and then slowly evolving as a respected independent country, the Mint started out coining denominations from the best information available at the time. Then as the complaints started rolling in on designs without a value anywhere on the coin, changes were immediately planned and authorized for the new designs. </p><p> </p><p> As we became a more sophisticated country then so did our coin designs. To date, we still are ever evolving. For example changing our currency to try and curb counterfeiting. Striving for constant improvement in meeting the needs of commerce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Zynko, post: 4297628, member: 110450"]John this was an incredibly informative post and beautifully illustrated by your selection of pictures. My heart rate actually started to rise looking at those gold pieces! Well done Sir! I would think as we were just laying the building blocks of our our Government and then slowly evolving as a respected independent country, the Mint started out coining denominations from the best information available at the time. Then as the complaints started rolling in on designs without a value anywhere on the coin, changes were immediately planned and authorized for the new designs. As we became a more sophisticated country then so did our coin designs. To date, we still are ever evolving. For example changing our currency to try and curb counterfeiting. Striving for constant improvement in meeting the needs of commerce.[/QUOTE]
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