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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Merc Crazy, post: 1129217, member: 27417&quot;]Because it&#039;s the opinion of R.S. Yeoman or whomever edited his work.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion is that they are the same.&nbsp; They were struck for and released into circulation, highly differentiating from patterns, which are struck and intended to be destroyed or used only privately as examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>The copper strike half disme(s) are what I consider to be patterns... but the silver strikes were undoubtedly intended to be circulating coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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