Dan Lewis writes about non-circulating, legal-tender coinage bimonthly in The Numismatist, official publication of the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org). The following column is reprinted with permission from the July 2011 issue. 

YEAR OF THE RABBIT - Silver & Jade of Laos  

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