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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2602837, member: 42034&quot;]Excellent coin Eduard.&nbsp; This is a coin I&#039;ve always wanted to own and perhaps one of the reasons why I no collect US.&nbsp; Historically significant US or US Colonial coinage is very expensive.&nbsp; The fact that it is [apparently] unslabbed means that you can record the weight and maybe eventually have it tested via nondestructive SEM to get the surface silver % and hence composition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among US coins, the ones I like best are the colonials and some weird esoteric issues.&nbsp; Also your write up on the Washington Cent is very interesting.&nbsp; I&#039;ve recently bid on some fugios but somehow despite there being like 50 of them at auction I&#039;m unable to snag a single one!!!&nbsp; I&#039;m a merit badge counselor for coin collecting for Boy Scouts and one of the requirements is to draw 5 US colonial coins.&nbsp; Thus I&#039;d love to get a fugio, large planchlet Mass shilling, or pewter Continental to show them as I do a bit of a coin show before the class.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have the 1773 Virginia half penney, better than the one here, no damage, and bought for $17.50 out of a coin shop in Philadelphia as well as a flock of other Colonials.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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