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If you could only keep one coin from your collection, what would it be and why?

My 2019-P 5-ounce silver dollar, Apollo 11, PF-70 coin, hand-signed by my cousin, Astronaut Scott D. Altman (four STS missions, two to the Hubble Space Telescope). Signed in cursive writing on the obverse and à la Mnuchin, hand-printed signature on the reverse. A close second coin would be my 1878-8TF MS-64 Vam 17 Morgan silver dollar. Not a

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