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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 514543, member: 16510&quot;]<b>AMSE are not nor will they ever be considered coins.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I will never be able to say (with a straight face) that any American eagle is a coin in our praticable application of the term, coin.</p><p>They are chunks of bullion - they are not made to spend, nobody spends them, they do not circulate, they will never circulate, nobody&#039;s thinks of them in terms of their denomination ever ever except to calculate which size they are - hey, there it is right there - the answer, the mother of all answers, the argument to end all arguments - </p><p>The only time an American Eagle coin&#039;s stated worth is thought of is when someone is trying to answer which size it is - don&#039;t you see my point!&nbsp; The only time we ask about their face value is when we want to find out how much more they are worth in contradiction to their stated face value.</p><p>I do not think we do that with any other form of coinage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben &quot;I found it&quot; Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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