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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3839599, member: 101855&quot;]Twenty dollars was a lot of money in the mid 1850s when coin collecting in the United States started to take off. A skilled worker made between $1.25 and $2.00 a day. Therefore $20 was from one and a half to two weeks and half weeks pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>One could afford to set aside some cents in a coin collection, but $20 was way over the limit. Therefore these coins were used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they mostly sat vaults and were moved from one rich man&#039;s or wealthy merchant&#039;s account to another. Still they were rubbed and banged together which soon took them out of the MS-65 grade class.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think that is a coin has not gone bad over a decade of proper storage that it is probably quite stable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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