Our 10 day East Coast adventure was quickly coming to an end. We’d toured, seen a show, mini golfed, beachcombed and sailed. But I still had one crucial thing to tick off my list.
Find a coin shop.
During our wanderings through Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island I had occasionally googled “coin shops near me”. Inevitably, what popped up was never near me. Until I hit the jackpot on the last night of our vacation.
We had spent the day on a hop on hop off bus tour of Boston, checking out the spots we had missed earlier in our trip. We saw most of the big sites from the bus and hopped off to visit TD Garden (home of the Boston Celtics 🏀 and Boston Bruins 🏒), Harvard and the Boston Tea Party Museum. After the day long tour we decided to walk back to the Kimpton Nine Zero our homebase in the city.
Well wouldn’t you know, just two blocks from the hotel, I looked up and realized there were FOUR coin shops all in a row along the street!!!!
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With no time to mess about (it was close to closing) I went into each shop and asked if anyone had Hamilton Mint 1970’s Silver Art Bars.
Here’s what I brought home. ☺️
Massachusetts and New Hampshire bars, front.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire bars, Reverse.
The Massachusetts bar is the 6th in a Hamilton Mint 50-bar set called Official Ingots of the United States. The face shows the Massachusetts State House in Boston. The bar’s reverse lists the date Massachusetts became a state. There is also a map of Massachusetts and revolutionary war soldiers. The bar is 1oz .999 pure silver. Only 15,000 of these bars were minted way back in 1974.
The New Hampshire bar is the 9th bar in the same series. The face shows New Hampshire’s capitol, located in Concord. The reverse shows one of the state’s mining operations. Like the Massachusetts bar, New Hampshire is also 1oz, .999 pure, with 15,000 produced in 1974.
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