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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doug21, post: 355249, member: 5650&quot;]maybe I&#039;m unfair to Potter, but I know a lot about US coins, but pretty much got out of coins during the 80&#039;s ( I&#039;m old). I still retain enough of an interest to subscribe to a trade&nbsp; paper at times, and still have some stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I pretty much disregard all post 1980 stuff as junk</p><p><br /></p><p>I also despise the US gov&#039;t and all the foul stuff they do.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin should have a combination of traits to be desirable, IMO !</p><p><br /></p><p>attractive design helps, like my avatar :smile</p><p><br /></p><p>that attribute started its path to destruction in 1909, but just barely.The early Lincoln cent was nice, like in 1909, the Indian design was dated. That led to the awful ugly quarter in 1932 over the hot SL desgn...then a few years later the fantastic nickel got a dead president.... I never really cared for the merc dime design much, but better than Barber until replaced by FDR, then to top it off kill the WL half for a mundane Franklin</p><p><br /></p><p>rarity helps !</p><p><br /></p><p>more later ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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