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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2873952, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I see that the sale of that Bust half leaves me embarrassingly low on United States coins.&nbsp; If one counts the Pillar Dollar (which is, after all, the first coin listed in the US Coins &quot;Red Book&quot;), I have only three.&nbsp; And one is a token!&nbsp; So the 1842-D USA half-eagle is the only regular US mint issue represented here at the moment.&nbsp; But it&#039;s worth more than twice what any other single coin in the collection is.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I&#039;ll have to work on adding a few more US pieces again.&nbsp; T</font></font><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">hose tend to get sold more often from my collection since t</font></font><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">hey&#039;re more liquid, and I&#039;m rather jaded about US coins overall.&nbsp; There&#039;s so much more &quot;bang for the buck&quot; in World and Ancient coins.&nbsp; But I do still enjoy classic US Type coins.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Need an Irish coin, too.&nbsp; And a Scottish coin.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never owned the latter, despite my Scots-Irish ancestry.&nbsp; (I did once have an extensive collection of Irish predecimal coins.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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