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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 104034, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Code is Data. Data is Code.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that the programming is pretty neat.&nbsp; I love the zoom and pan. The high resolution imaging is marvelous.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is unusual.&nbsp; You don&#039;t see that many of these in Uncirculated condition.&nbsp; If you appreciate the long and painful effort of the U.S. Mint to get above incompetence and beyond mediocrity,&nbsp; then a coin like this makes a nice milestone. In Mint State, it is easy to see why people of the time excoriated the government for this &quot;wild woman&quot; coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When you consider the Birch Cent, the Wyon coins, and the many other issues of the time -- coins of marked artistic accomplishment -- all much better than this harpy, you have to look at this coin as a reflection of how hard it was to organize a government Mint from scratch, and give it its due on that excuse alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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