Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Collecting Coins. [ARTICLE]

Collecting Coins.

Coin oollectora have long appreciated the difficulty of making a complete collection of American specimens. The United States coinage of 1703 la veiy rare, and a dollar of the yepr 1794 has often sold for as much as SIOO. A 1796 half-oent Is so rare as to sell readily for sls, and a half-dollar of the same year is worth 60 times its original value While the half-oent of 1804 is common enough, all the other coins of that year are rare, the dollar of that particular date being the rarest-of all American coins. Only eight are known to exist out of the 19,570 that were coined. The lowest price that one of these now changes hands for is SBOO. These prices are encouraging to collectors. REV. H. P. CARBON, Bootland, Dak., says I •Two IwWes of Hall's Catarrh Cure completely cured tuy MlUe girl." Bold by Druggists, 75a. The greatest swarm of locusts ever known invaded South Africa in 1797. They were driven into the sea by a north wind, and the waves throwing them back, a bank of dead locusts from three to six feet thick was formed for fifty miles along the coast To aid Digestion take one SmaU Bile Bean after eating. 25a per bottle. Light griefs do speak, while sorrow’s tongue is bouad. —Seneca.