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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 21792850, member: 101855"]Here is the best, highest grade, 20 cent piece I have. This one is graded MS-65, and it's "all there." [ATTACH=full]1543578[/ATTACH] This series has fascinated me since I was high school. I collected the four regular issue dates with the stipulation that they needed to have a complete "LIBERTY." I now have a complete set, Proof and Mint State, minus the 1876-CC. I have seen a couple of them. One was in "Auction '82" and was in fairly rough shape for one of those pieces. It "sold" for circa $20 grand. A dealer next to me said that it had been "bought in" a number of times at the major auctions. I saw another at a Baltimore coin show. The price was $575,000, which was beyond my budget. It was a nice, bright white MS-65, and "all there" if you didn't mind the fact that it had been dipped. I have heard a story that the surviving 1876-CC Twenty Cent Pieces were saved from the Assay Commission melt. I don’t know if that is true. I am only sorry that it is a permanent hole in my collection. BTW, all of the genuine 1876-CC double dimes have a doubled "LIBERTY."[/QUOTE]