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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 24657019, member: 73489&quot;]There wasn&#039;t much gold production in the U.S the first few decades of our existence.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">When gold was found in California in the 1840&#039;s, gold production took off.&nbsp; </span></b>That was the impetus behind the creation of the Double Eagle -- we needed a larger coin to efficiently mint and use the gold being mined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mintages were much lower in the years and decades before....because gold production, trade, and capital flows were also much less than they would be from 1880-1933.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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