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The Coins of Elizabeth Jones

When it comes to a theme for building some type of collection, the collecting community has for a very long time been interested in completing sets, usually of some design or denomination. Older collectors probably remember plucking Lincoln cents from change, in part to see if they could still find wheat-back cents in circulation. A newer generation of collectors has most likely had the same challenge when looking at our quarters and seeing if they can still land some sharp-looking pieces from the first year of the

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