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Subject:
Shell coins
From:
John Jacobs <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:39:24 -0400
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Actually, there have been two US coins with shells.  They were both
circulating commemorative coins from the thirties: the 1936 Norfolk,
Virginea Bicentennial half-dollar shows two scallop shells on the obverse,
and the 1935 Hudson, New York half-dollar depicts a mermaid blowing a
stylized triton's trumpet in the background behind Neptune who is on the
back of a whale.  Both these coins generally sell for several hundred
dollars each.

John Jacobs
Seffner, FL
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