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Lot 126 - 1865 Nickel Three Cents PCGS PR66 CAM

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Lot 126 - 1865 Nickel Three Cents PCGS PR66 CAM
1865 Nickel Three Cents. Clearly recut date. A satiny frosted cameo gem of the finest order. Explosive mirror luster graces the faint nickel-gray toned surfaces. Sharply struck for the first year of issue Proof, easily finer in sharpness than others we see similarly graded.

"Carpet-baggers" and "Scalawags." The end of the Civil War in 1865 brought an influx of poor Northerners to the South. They came carrying in carpet-bags all their possessions. Hence the term of derision given to them. Many of the freed slaves who had suddenly gained the vote by reason of the hasty passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, fell easily under the influence of the worst "carpet-baggers," and the ensuing corruption, especially in the legislatures, was far worse than anything the country experienced before or since. The "scalawags" were poor whites who saw in Reconstruction a chance to better themselves, and began to run for political office on the Republican ticket. (#83761)