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To: fishhound
. . .there is an “O” under the eagles feet...Could that be the mintmark?

The New Orleans Mint (O mint mark) closed at the beginning of the Civil War (1861) and did not re-open until the end of Reconstruction in 1879. During its two stints as a minting facility, it produced both gold and silver coinage in eleven different denominations, though only ten denominations were ever minted there at one time (in 1851 silver three-cent pieces, half dimes, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and gold dollars, Quarter Eagles, half eagles, eagles, and double eagles).---Wikipedia

13 posted on 05/14/2008 11:54:57 PM PDT by henbane
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To: henbane

Thank you, great post!!!


14 posted on 05/14/2008 11:59:01 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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