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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 457204, member: 15199&quot;]Hi Onehawk33,</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Which image are you referring to? The one I was asking as to whether it looked cu-ni is dated 1850, Variety 127 is from 1851, but it doesn&#039;t carry a date ( see post 7).</p><p><br /></p><p>It might be of interest that Judd mentions a letter from the Director of the mint to Sec. of treasury in 1854 saying the the reason the &quot;ring cent&quot; was not adopted was that the cost of&nbsp; 1. retrieving the silver from the billon would be greater than the billon, and 2. the difficulty in stamping and ejecting coins from the dies, so that most of the value of a formed cent would be in the cost of the striking. ( paraphrased for brevity) </p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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