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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26555817, member: 101855&quot;]My first gold coin was an 1854 Type II gold dollar. I bought it from my mother’s cleaning lady. Type II gold dollars had begun to become a big deal when I bought it in circa 1963, but this one was not worth a fortune. It has a VF-25 or so, and date was very weak, but readable. A weak date is not unusual for a Type II gold dollar. I sold it a little over ten years later. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same lady had an 1853-D gold dollar. It was the first gold coin I ever saw. She would not sell that one. One of the men in town had offered her $50 for it, and she had passed. That was a fair offer in the early 1960s. It was probably an EF, but I had only been a collector for a few months when I saw it as a fifth grader and had no ideal how to grade coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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