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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7989177, member: 105571&quot;]Q. David Bowers states in Whitman&#039;s <i>A Guide Book of Liberty Seated Silver Coins </i>re the 1853, No Arrows:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Of the 135,000 struck, 50,000 were coined on February 19 and 85,000 on February 22, the last a day after the act of February 21, 1853.&nbsp; Most probably, the 85,000 went directly to the melting pot, and it is highly likely that the majority of the 50,000 met the same fate.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>On the 1853-O, No Arrows, he writes:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The New Orleans Mint called in and/or did not distribute much of its coinage struck prior to the Act of February 21, 1853, and in autumn of 1853 shipped more than $1 million of silver coins of various denominations to Philadelphia to be melted...&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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