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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26130559, member: 86815&quot;]To date I have been lucky with a number of these as I guess I am buying from either inheritors or non-collectors who are placing them without reserve, sometimes with very poor listing titles. This is one I picked up in the last few days.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667581[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure the Franklin Mint box would put off many together with the &quot;Grade 2&quot; stickers but in reality these are nice attributable coins and both with the same assayer. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667582[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1667583[/ATTACH] </p><p>I like your Smithsonian case, very handsome. Was the coin an actual striking [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER]?</p><p>I really like those daguerreotype cases and more so what they contained. I read a lot about the US Civil War being the first &quot;modern&quot; war because of instant reporting with telegraph and also photographic images. It is amazing that you found the identical case as there appears to be a multitude of designs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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