Connected pairs; invited guests.

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Here are a pair of coins that served—by invitation—in countries not their own. Venezuela bought about 1,100,000 of these 1835 American cents....

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...and in a time before the United States minted coins of its own, Spanish silver was an American favorite. It’s even possible, I guess, that this 1787 Spanish 2-reales spent a part of its first summer in Philadelphia, at that year’s Constitutional Convention.

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