Quite an unusual coin for 1872, wouldn't you say?
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A very interesting .50c (go lick a mule, Sean!)
pattern that's coming up in Heritage's FUN sale Jan. 2009, LOT #1121.
It could use some minor "detailing" but I find the theme quite attractive. A pet eagle? That's gotta be some sort of subliminal thing going on. 
pattern that's coming up in Heritage's FUN sale Jan. 2009, LOT #1121.It could use some minor "detailing" but I find the theme quite attractive.
A pet eagle? That's gotta be some sort of subliminal thing going on. 
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Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Go back into your gloryhole, will ya?
but good gawd to be alive in the 1870's...i'm sure you didn't get to frisky as most were gun slingers of no edumacations
it could be they were a lil more frisky too being all the cold showers as i'm sure water heaters were pots on pot belly stoves in that ol day n time
As for the question, the population tends to swing like a pendulum when it comes to this sort of thing. Such as in the 1920s, you’d see Betty Boop in her teddy but by the 1930s, the older Betty Boop cartoons were no longer shown in theaters and the new Betty Boop was covered in a dress.
Brothels were common and every western town had one in the mid-1800s, but by the 1900s they were very frowned upon and eventually outlawed.
The early Standing quarters had a bare breast but then it was covered up.
Back to the coin… that thing is gorgeous!
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Neat except it's a half dollar. If the big HALF DOL on the reverse didn't give it away, the dollar version has both breasts uncovered.
Sean Reynolds
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<< <i>A very interesting $1 pattern that's coming up in Heritage's FUN sale Jan. 2009, LOT #1121. >>
Neat except it's a half dollar. If the big HALF DOL on the reverse didn't give it away, the dollar version has both breasts uncovered.
Sean Reynolds >>
I SAID half-dollar Mr. Weisenheimer.
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