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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2826511, member: 10461&quot;]Yes, that tradition goes back centuries, though to my knowledge, I am not aware of it having been done so much here in the South.&nbsp; Maybe, but since you Yankees burned most of our barns in that little spat we had a few years back, who knows?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a colonial-era (1731) George II halfpenny with a so-called &quot;square nail&quot; (actually rectangular) hole.&nbsp; You see this from time to time on colonial and early US coins.&nbsp; I used to have a Nova Constellatio copper with a rectangular nail hole, too, but can&#039;t find pix of it now.&nbsp; The Roosevelt dime in the OP definitely reminded me of this.&nbsp; I think in the distant past, people also nailed coins to ships&#039; masts for luck.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-GrBrit-halfpenny-1731.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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