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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;miedbe7, post: 2214352, member: 33919&quot;]I&#039;ll go a different route and say the 1822 $5.&nbsp; I like that design and will look into why they melted all but three of them down.&nbsp; Maybe debt repayment, what a novel idea!</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - composition changes of 1834 is why they melted them down.&nbsp; How odd that they still had the entire mintage 12 years later?&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t make any sense.&nbsp; I must be reading <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rare-coin-half-eagle-long-beach-20150127-story.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rare-coin-half-eagle-long-beach-20150127-story.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> article wrong, or they are presenting it incorrectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, I will still stick with the 1822 Half Eagle.&nbsp; Especially one of the two Smithsonian pieces, as the only private piece is XF/AU at best (from the Pogue collection).</p><p><br /></p><p>edit2 - Now this is even more confusing.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/million-dollar-coin-club/RegularIssues.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/million-dollar-coin-club/RegularIssues.aspx" rel="nofollow">This</a> PCGS article shows the Pogue example as being in better condition than the two Smithsonian examples.&nbsp; [USER=25877]@Dancing Fire[/USER] is that 1822 $5 Uncirculated from your recollection?&nbsp; It sure looks like it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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