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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 5397108, member: 115909&quot;]Does anyone know where the precious metals came from that were used to make the earliest American silver &amp; gold coinage like silver Flowing Hair Dollars &amp; gold Turban Head coinage?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Was it lent to America by a foreign nation?</p><p><br /></p><p>Were there just some really rich people who had a lot of gold &amp; silver and deposited it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or was it something else?</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously without large amounts of gold &amp; silver it would be impossible to make large numbers of coins and I can’t imagine Americans were mining much gold &amp; silver in the late 1700s so it had to come from somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone knows more please pitch in. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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