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‘Doubled Die’ Image in March 2 issue of NN

ello. I hope everyone has been doing good. I would like to point out an error in the March 2 edition of . On Page 22, the article done by Robert R. Van Ryzin about the “You Name It” column, the picture of the 1904 U.S/Philippine peso is actually an 1858-O Seated Liberty half dollar. But the cool thing is that the same coin was meant for Page 28 in Mark Benvenuto’s article about “Finding Good Buys Among Seated Liberty Halves.” So it was like a doubled die. The picture was on Page 28

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