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1795 S-75 Lettered Edge
Another one of my favorites - I got this one at the Biloxi Coin Show
in early 1997. (No, it wasn't cheap; in fact I had to borrow from a
friend to get it!) It's smooth with all legends very bold. It's also
a lettered edge; in 1795 500,000+ coins were of the plain edge (thin planchet)
variety, and just 60,000+ were of the lettered edge (thick planchet) variety.
The edge lettering should read ONE HUNDERED FOR A DOLLAR. The odd thing about
this coin is that some of the edge lettering is doubled; on my specimen
it reads something like this: ONE HUNDRED FORFOR A A DOLLAR R.
Strange early error! I didn't notice this (it wasn't advertised as such)
until I got home that night.
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