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44. It would have been worth various amounts in various forms.

Sat Aug 28, 2021, 02:48 AM

Aug 2021

If he had converted it into $10 coins of 1795 (they were not introduced until 1795), that would have made 200 of them, more if one took into account that a pound was worth more than a dollar. Even in 1990, they would easily have been worth between $25,000 and $50,000 each on the collector market.

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