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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 63728, member: 759&quot;]I can see that viewpoint, too.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wouldn’t fault them with the “ocian” spelling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think they were afraid that most folks wouldn’t understand that it was a quote from the diary, and would think the Mint had illiterate proofreaders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I read someone complaining that the word “liberty” was scrawled and not in the block letters it usually is.&nbsp; The complainer didn’t realize that it was taken from Jefferson’s own handwriting.&nbsp; Knowing that, it’s my favorite element of the new nickels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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