Way Out of the Mainstream: Silver 3-Cent Pieces
Dec 27, 2021
3 minutes
BY MARK BENVENUTO
(Images courtesy
usacoinbook.com
.)
Among the series of coins many within the collecting community really enjoy focusing on – the Morgan and Peace dollars, the Walking Liberty and Franklin halves – it’s a pretty fair comment to say that there is never much interest in building collections of silver 3-cent pieces. The reasons are varied but most likely include: the coins are small, they are not artistic masterpieces, they don’t have much heft in the hand. Whatever the case, though, this series of small silver is pretty far out of the mainstream. Yet
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