Yup. That's the reasoning/permission behind the .900 to .999 switch. When the mint was making their own blanks, they used purchased pure silver...
No 0.900 fine. For example, the Greatest Generation coin act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1057):
Gold COIN alloy is fixed by law as 0.900. Not the mint's choice. 1/10th 1/4 1/2 and 1 ounce "Eagles" (American Gold Eagle, AGE). AND they have...
Nobody else in the world uses 0.900 fine. It is actually cheaper - even with the extra silver content - to use 0.999 fine.
Circulation coin strikes spill out of the press into giant bags for distribution, so they tend to come from the same pair of dies. Die chips...
1. The hat on the bird? It looks like a die chip 2. Please adjust the clock on your camera... we don't need more time-traveler theories showing up...
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That we are pretty much like the rest of the web except we don't yet have a Stochastic Parrot (Artificual Stupid) component.
Chicken or Pork?
People think that because they are old, they will upgrade. Maybe and maybe not. The ones that have been in the market for years have been looked...
Oh, yes, Denis has an eye for toners. You should follow him on IG just to see the "not quite good enough for my set" coins he finds and resells.
Those are later Amos. ANACS was originally owned by the ANA (American Numismatic Association) and used the smaller SWH (Small White Holders)....
I'm not sure I'm into taking an album made of archival-grade materials and putting a sticker in there of, um, well, random origin and materials...
PVC is not the issue. Poly Vinyl Chloride is a hard rigid plastic. To make it soft, they add plasticizers, and that's actually the problem.
Acid is not a friend to paper.
Both - the early die break of a BIE plus a hit on the bottom of the E.
I have never seen a Barber anything in ACG.
You are welcome. You needed a new hobby: errors on play money!!!
People sell printed acrylic disks on fleaBay too. But a little bing-fu takes us to https://banksupplies.com/740-11001 and...
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