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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1061112, member: 25357&quot;]I agree, Mercury dimes are one of the greatest US coin series to collect.&nbsp; I&#039;d put them up there with Buffalo Nickels as one of the most popular US coin series ever.&nbsp; And one that actually circulated in large numbers.&nbsp; I love the aesthetic appeal of the fasces on the reverse.</p><p>Again this taps into my love of history.&nbsp; When the fasces was put on the coin in 1916, it was before the negative connotation associated with the fasces tying it to the European fascist regimes of the mid 20th century occurred in the public consciousness.</p><p>I wonder if they would have put a fasces on a US coin post WWII?&nbsp; Methinks probably not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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