And to add to my comment of yesterday, with the way the planchets are fed into the current horizontal striking presses a situation such as I...
Only way for a coin to leave the mint with one side blank is to have two planchets enter the coining chamber at the same time. But the blank side...
Years ago they would have. But so many collectors kept complaining that their coins were coming back in bodybags and they weren't getting...
I think the hub may be from the same parent coin, but I think the entire date was removed from the hub. The placement of the date is different....
The first clad commemorative half dollar was the 1986 Statue of Liberty. They were $6.50 pre issue and $7.50 regular price. And that included...
Spacing is bad but they didn't leave out a letter. Of course they spelled UNITED as UNITHD.
Looks like N-5.
Didn't know the stooges did the routine. I learned it from Abbott and Costello.
At this time the lettering in the dies was still being punched into each die by hand. The large 8 and stars (N-1) used rev A, and rev A was used...
Well since no one asked after I dropped the hint, the 1819 is N-7 an R-4+ coin.
Also the nickel planchet won't pass through the feeding tubes on a press set up for cents So the nickel planchet couldn't even get to the coining...
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