[fishhound]

I used keywprds for each state where these were minted.

Good forgotten history stuff.

[fishhound]

keywprds= keywords

[Liberty Valance]

The good stuff ;o)

Thanks for posting.

[varyouga]

Dang. I'm a collector and never even heard of these mints before today.

What are the mintmarks and how rare are they?

[Nailbiter]

ping

[stimpy17]

......and the bureaucrat from the “You Have Government Property Agency” clock has just started.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

That was the hurricane that cut “Last Island” (a resort) into several pieces.

[wildbill]

I tried to post this yesterday, using the URL for the Lafayette paper story. It was refused by the FR system or monitor because it was also on the AP wire service.

I didn’t use AP anywhere in the heading as you have, how did you get this through?

[csvset]

I attend auctions frequently. One auctioneer uses a phrase, " Boys! You just can't find 'em !", whenever there's a rare or what he'd like you to think is a rare item.

I'd imagine he'd be going ballistic over these coins.

Thanks for posting this.

[TheLion]

I was watching the History Channel earlier with a piece of the SS Central America wreck. The finders that raised the 1857 gold took ten years in court fighting 30 some insurance companies to claimed they had paid out claims for the losses.

The company that brought up similiar treasure....only dated a little later than this one, ultimately got 92% of the value!