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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 773512, member: 19463&quot;]Really folks, even $.50 is a lot for a very poor replica of a coin that is easily available genuine.&nbsp; These are the sort of thing used in a mailing to promote a book on the Holy Land so you very well may have got one free if you are on the right mailing list.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The real ones of these vary a great deal in price and quality.&nbsp; For $5 you get ugly and missing all detail on one side or the other.&nbsp; For $10, it still ugly but has a little more detail.&nbsp; Decent looking starts about $20 and full legends, great surfaces and well centered on both sides (a one in a million coin) might hit $100.&nbsp; Below are a couple a bit better than average (but not hard to find as nice).&nbsp; Many people feel they need two of them since that is the number specified in the story of the Widow&#039;s mites </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" rel="nofollow"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/119707229.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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