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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1501830, member: 4381&quot;][h=2]<a href="http://www.luxist.com/2011/02/27/the-world-of-rare-coins-the-dollar-with-the-hole-in-it/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/2011/02/27/the-world-of-rare-coins-the-dollar-with-the-hole-in-it/" rel="nofollow">The World of Rare Coins: The Dollar With the Hole In It</a>[/h]<i>by</i> <b><a href="http://www.luxist.com/bloggers/deidre-woollard/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/bloggers/deidre-woollard/" rel="nofollow">Deidre Woollard</a></b> (<a href="http://www.luxist.com/bloggers/deidre-woollard/rss.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/bloggers/deidre-woollard/rss.xml" rel="nofollow">RSS feed</a>) — </p><p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.luxist.com/category/auctions/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/category/auctions/" rel="nofollow">Auctions</a></p><p><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.luxist.com/media/2011/02/ringdollar1852.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>You&#039;ve probably never seen a U.S. <a href="http://www.luxist.com/tag/coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/tag/coins/" rel="nofollow">coin</a>&nbsp; like this before. The U.S. Mint began experimenting with different gold&nbsp; dollar patterns in 1852. The problem was simple, gold dollars were&nbsp; small and easily lost. And so the Mint tried out creating pattern gold&nbsp; dollars in 1852, producing the patterns now known as Judd-136 to&nbsp; Judd-148 which have a larger, more convenient diameter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.luxist.com/tag/coin+collecting" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.luxist.com/tag/coin+collecting" rel="nofollow">http://www.luxist.com/tag/coin+collecting</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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