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Assembling a Gold $2.50 Set a Five-Year-Long Pursuit

It was with some interest reading the article on $2.50 Indian Head quarter eagles by Mark Benvenuto in the Dec. 14, 2021, issue of NN. I was successfully able to gather the set. It took me about 5-1/2 years to find all of them in an acceptable quality. This means, make

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