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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 5400850, member: 59677&quot;]Dup, so...</p><p><br /></p><p>The story about Martha Washington&#039;s silver has been thoroughly debunked. Not a milligram of truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The silver came from Thomas Jefferson. The Mint was one of the ancillary responsibilities that Washington divided up among the cabinet and TJ got the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason nobody had found the proof until recently turns out because the mint wasn&#039;t very important. Thomas noted the deposit of the 175 Spanish (probably Mexican) Silver dollars in his daybook (of accounts).</p><p><br /></p><p>He picked them up and departed for an 11 day trip to Monticello and noted spending the first that night as a tip for the porter at the inn. It has to be at least one of the half dismes because there&#039;s no way he could have tipped 30 cents using Spanish 1, 2, 4 or 8 reales and cut up bits of same. Would have been 25c or 37 1/2c.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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