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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8171984, member: 105571"]I like your coin. While the appeal of eye candy high-grade early cents is undeniable, their cost makes them unattainable for most of us. And, frankly, I find the circulated and even beat up examples exude a charm deriving from the unknown history of their circulation. One can imagine anything! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my beat up 1794. My imagined story here is that it fell onto the cobbled street of Philadelphia from a boy's hand when his father sent him down the street to buy a bucket of beer from the tavern. Then it was run over by the iron-shod wheel of a carter's wagon carrying rum or whiskey to the docks from the farms west of the Allegheny Mountains.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427677[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8171984, member: 105571"]I like your coin. While the appeal of eye candy high-grade early cents is undeniable, their cost makes them unattainable for most of us. And, frankly, I find the circulated and even beat up examples exude a charm deriving from the unknown history of their circulation. One can imagine anything! Here's my beat up 1794. My imagined story here is that it fell onto the cobbled street of Philadelphia from a boy's hand when his father sent him down the street to buy a bucket of beer from the tavern. Then it was run over by the iron-shod wheel of a carter's wagon carrying rum or whiskey to the docks from the farms west of the Allegheny Mountains. [ATTACH=full]1427677[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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