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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4655920, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks for that, Ancient Coin Hunter.&nbsp; ...Does this forum Average At Least One Thread as brilliant as this Every Day?&nbsp; Sure seems like it.&nbsp; I only knew of the two commoner types.</p><p>Boswell&#039;s <u>Life of Johnson</u> has a cool echo of Eusebius, mentioning one Conder token with Johnson&#039;s profile.</p><p>&quot;Let me add, as a proof of the popularity of his character, that there are copper pieces struck at Birmingham, with his head impressed on them, which pass current as half-pence there, and in the neighboring parts of the country.&quot; (Entry for &#039;1784;&#039; Oxford 1-vol. ed., p. 1396.)</p><p>I don&#039;t have pictures of my example, but compared to this one, you&#039;re not missing much: <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1790s-half-penny-doctor-sam-johnson-453427475" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1790s-half-penny-doctor-sam-johnson-453427475" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1790s-half-penny-doctor-sam-johnson-453427475</a></p><p>I have to like how unflattering the portrait is![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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