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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26810593, member: 101855&quot;]1864 Large Motto</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1711124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Small Motto</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1711125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1870 This is a leftover from a set I formed in 1980 when the coin market was nuts, and collectors were priced out of the market by &quot;investors.&quot; There were fools who told us that there were &quot;collector grade coins&quot; and &quot;investor grade coins.&quot; To whom were the investors going to sell their coins, other &quot;investors?&quot; It&#039;s called &quot;the bigger fool theory.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>This one grades EF, but it would not have taken much time in circulation for the coin to have gone to VG. The relief was not very high.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were supposed to have been unpopular, but I&#039;ve seen a lot of low grade ones from the late 1860s. They were not all pocketpieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1711126[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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