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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;68KennedyHalf, post: 784401, member: 22306&quot;]Well, as I said above, the historic value for me as a black person is specifically related to what my own ancestors -- and their peer groups -- were using on a daily basis. </p><p><br /></p><p>I picture my grandfather, who was a sharecropper, using some Barber Halves to buy grain and other supplies. My mother and her siblings found time to go to the movies, even in rural Mississippi of the 1930s and &#039;40s, so I can imagine them using Barber Quarters, SLQs or Mercury dimes to get tickets, buy popcorn, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t say I have any interest in the coinage of the late 18th century or the first 65 years of the 19th, as some of those pieces might literally have been used to buy or sell my forebears. As I compile my U.S. year sets based on key birthdates of family members, I&#039;m content to start in 1890 (the approximate year of my maternal grandfather&#039;s birth; his birth records were lost).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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