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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 16656487, member: 19250&quot;]This 1812 bust half is my favorite specimen of US coins. She&#039;s not very pretty ,been cleaned ...guility as charged! Why the things we do as kids. </p><p>My father obtained this coin&nbsp; as a teenager. He was from a family of 5 boys. As a young&nbsp; man he left high school to accept a job as a runner or bill collector for the Federal Reserve . That would of been in the early 1930 &#039;s. He accepted this coin as payment on a bill.</p><p>Even in the 1930&#039;s 1812 was a 118 years old. So he kept the half...and it wa given to me over 60 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>One must realize the value of 50 cents in the early 1930 &#039;s. For a kid whom just quite school, and took a job to help support the family.[ATTACH=full]1534789[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1534790[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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