Two versions of that slab, with a slightly different company name (American Fidelity Coin Grading Service). Amanda posted about them a decade ago...
1856 Flying Eagles are generally called patterns. Albeit struck in much larger quantities than any other pattern and widely distributed. The 88%...
The small cent was introduced in 1857. The five-cent copper-nickel alloy coin was introduced in 1865. That's not much difference.
Remember eWeek the IT newsletter? I created a unique email address for them and still get spam from people who "assure [you] that we buy only...
Supermarkets do this every time there is a coin shortage. It's a cheap loss leader (often less costly than the 25c/pound Turkey) and it gets...
There's no way I can see to keep a 5g "nickel" using zinc. Density of the 75% Copper - 25% Nickel is 8.93 g/cm³. A 5g "nickel" is then 0.56 cm³....
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A little basic research goes a long way. The mint director's annual report presents the costs and seignorage (profit) for each denomination....
We know they make their data available to NGC and PCGS, who report auction prices in their population reports.
ASEs are a separate section, 5112 (e) [ATTACH]
I know. And changing the mass to between 4 and 6 grams is similarly unachieveable. Where I too don't see how you get to 5 plus or minus 1 G if...
Posted this ATS... https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12572 3 of the 4 were referred to committee at the beginning of the year and nothing...
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