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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2968196, member: 72790&quot;]Two stories from history about holed coins. On the first voyage of Columbus to the New World (or the Indies, as he saw it) to encourage the lookouts to be extra vigilant, he nailed a gold coin (500 marivades, I think) to the Santa Maria&#039;s main mast as a reward for being the first to spot land. The second involved frontiersman (and US Congressman) Davy Crocket who was invited to demonstrate his shooting ability by firing at a 50 cent piece nailed to a fence post at a hundred paces with his long rifle, Betsey. Crocket said no, he would not do that as it would pull a US coin out of circulation. What he did was trace the outline of the coin onto the post and fire at that. PS He plugged the outline dead center.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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