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4 December 2008

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Pre-U.S. Mint releases include unauthorized coin issues - Coin World

Before the Philadelphia Mint began to produce the first of the nation’s regular issue circulating coinage in 1793, multiple series of coins and tokens – some of them unauthorized, some even counterfeit – circulated on American soil.

Some of the issues are extremely rare, with only a fraction of their original mintages known to exist today.

Read entire article: Pre-U.S. Mint releases include unauthorized coin issues - Coin World

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