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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blasty, post: 8269666, member: 38375&quot;]Congratulations Blake! Now you need to pop it out of there so you can fondle it and enjoy the weight of it... kidding! Sort of... everyone should hold one raw at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p>What an interesting thread, though. I knew that these coins were primarily used for banking and international transactions, but not quite to the extent described here. Cool!</p><p><br /></p><p>It makes me wonder about the stories that the occasional circulated examples could tell. I picked up a nicely-worn (probably VF) 1909-S $20 some time back just to have one that I could handle to my heart&#039;s content without worry of hurting its value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the appeal to me is that it was clearly a working coin that didn&#039;t hang out in a vault all its life. It&#039;s crazy to think about that amount of money changing hands so many times, the wealthy people that might have carried it, and what it might have bought. It also makes me wonder if this particular one remained in the US and laid low during the melts described here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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