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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 1960970, member: 7638&quot;]Again from Bowers: &quot;In circulated grades..&nbsp; the 1843.. may be the most common of the dates in the 1840&#039;s.&quot;&nbsp; It is an extreme rarity in MS64 or higher. Also in 1843, Samuel F.B. Morse received a grant of $30,000 to develop a telegraph line between Washington, DC and Baltimore. Charles Thurber invented a typewriter, and Elias Howe the sewing machine. Edgar A. Poe&#039;s &quot;The Gold Bug&quot;, a tale of buried treasure, was published in Philadelphia, and &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot; by Dickens first appeared in print.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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