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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 8521651, member: 116145&quot;]I do not shy away from Details coins, I&#039;m into collecting mostly for the history and I&#039;m always on a budget - so I have a fair number of holed or ex-jewelry pieces, including my 1861-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar.&nbsp; Those are unique in that they were produced by three sovereign authorities:&nbsp; the Union, then the State of Louisiana and then the Confederacy - all in the same year!&nbsp; How about that?!?!?!&nbsp; Love it!&nbsp; But my favorite holed coin (right now) is my 1422-61 King Henry VI of England, Gold Quarter Noble which is a rare coin and would have been entirely unaffordable to me except that someone holed it to put it on a chain or string and then broke out the hole - NGC body bagged it as too fragile to encapsulate and I swooped in on the auction for about $300.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is beat up, but man, the history lives in that one!&nbsp; I&#039;ve also recently bid on a number of silver pieces (cups for example) that have old but really nice silver coins or coronation medals fused into them, haven&#039;t won any yet though.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my Seated Liberty Half and 1/4 Noble:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1506484[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1506489[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1506490[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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