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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2517295, member: 78153&quot;]The first coin is a really nice one.&nbsp; If you bought it, I saw it on Sixbid.&nbsp; There was also another MS-65 for sale in a second auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one, I hope it looks better than the image because I don&#039;t think its as nice as the first, despite the higher grade.&nbsp; The reverse looks nice but the obverse less so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own five of the seven coins in NGC MS-63 to MS-65.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own the 3 florin and 14 florin because I have never set aside the money for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who don&#039;t know these coins, I would consider them scarce to moderately scarce, but only in higher grades.&nbsp; The mintages are low or relatively low for the time but like many other late 18th century European coins, the survival rates are high enough that the coins aren&#039;t that hard to buy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically in my experience, the one I have seen the least in better grades is the liard.&nbsp; Mine is an MS-63 BN. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most common and easiest to buy is the 3 florin.&nbsp; I have seen that coin in better AU or MS, a lot.&nbsp; I consider it likely at least several hundred exist out of the original reported mintage of 44,000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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