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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3249906, member: 98035"]Perhaps you were thinking of one like the upper left?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3375191" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3375191" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3375191</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They exist and I have seen them in archives, but none have been offered for sale since I started collecting these in 2016.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was however one that I dropped out of bidding for when it topped $100, and I regret that decision to this day...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]852274[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The series is fascinating because everything seems to point to the existing supply being just a very, very small portion of what originally existed. You could gather up thousands of these coins, and have only a handful of die matches in the whole lot. Maheshwari supposes that this means the coins were subject to such seignorage that the mints were continually melting and re-coining. Who knows how many entire types failed to survive the melting pot?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3249906, member: 98035"]Perhaps you were thinking of one like the upper left? [url]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3375191[/url] They exist and I have seen them in archives, but none have been offered for sale since I started collecting these in 2016. There was however one that I dropped out of bidding for when it topped $100, and I regret that decision to this day... [ATTACH=full]852274[/ATTACH] The series is fascinating because everything seems to point to the existing supply being just a very, very small portion of what originally existed. You could gather up thousands of these coins, and have only a handful of die matches in the whole lot. Maheshwari supposes that this means the coins were subject to such seignorage that the mints were continually melting and re-coining. Who knows how many entire types failed to survive the melting pot?[/QUOTE]
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