The Coinage Act of 1853, which authorized it, was passed in early 1853 at a time when a lot of the silver coinage had been hoarded out of...
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January 6-15, 2018.
What was the date range of the original thread?
Not counting commemorative coins, the U.S. Mints struck only cents, silver dollars and double eagles in 1922. The very logical reason why this...
I am writing a monograph on the cents of 1922. There is one die on which the D was completely off the die. There are at least four others (one is...
The first thing that would have to happen would be for 90% or more of the population of the world to die off, as there is not enough gold to go...
Thank you. I had wondered why they were 13 to a shilling.
FWIW, a 1/3 Guinea is 7 Shillings.
Watch platinum and palladium as well. Russia is a big producer of both, and they could either dump because they need money or cut off exports to...
I am still confused. Is it a cast copy or an electrotype? TD
Interesting. Please explain more about how these were produced. TD
My paternal grandmother was born in 1890. In the Summer of 1969 she was living with us, and sat up with us to watch Neil Armstrong step onto the...
I finally received the following reply from David T. Alexander: This creature is always described as the "British Lion (ess). In English heraldry...
Fourth grade here, and the nuns did not promise us anything.
Perhaps a few tiny holes in the copper-nickel cladding layer before it was bonded to the copper core, which allowed the copper to come through to...
As others have pointed out, they are not the same. Different districts.
This is most likely.
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