Bruce Hornsby ;)
I always thought it was weird to have the same person represented on both sides.
The copper jackets the lead...
It's easy, just really, really slow.
OK Nevadabell, I think you can ease up on your promotional campaign for the "Cool Numbers" site now.
Which eagles are these?? Surely the soaring Sacajawea dollar eagle is the freest we've ever seen! [emoji4] The established (until recent times)...
Which coined image of Lady Liberty are you thinking of here? Or is this some kind of crypto-political metaphor? There are presently a bunch of...
The bicentennial of the country was a considerably bigger deal than the centennial of the Lincoln cent. Also, the bicentennial designs were better...
So every collector that wants one gets one, but frenzy-speculators take a bath? Sweet.
It hardly matters in this context, but many copper rounds are actually avoirdupois ounces, not troy. So, even less.
Yes. Let us know when you turn out your first batch.
I recommend A Southern Star for Maryland. Among other good stuff, it contains tables of the actual voting in the four-way 1860 election (Lincoln,...
I expect it came in a roll and she never looked at it.
If the outcome of the war had been different, we'd call it the "Pratt Street (or Baltimore) Massacre" (some do). Very similar to the Boston event...
I could not agree more. Just walking along Constitution Avenue ought to make people proud to be Americans.
Parts of the Mall are always cordoned off in preparation for or recovery after some big event. Or currently, for construction of the...
They're often (all?) based on known photos and/or official portrait paintings. (JFK's downward gaze seems to "inspired" by his official portrait.)...
No. Even if we accept that there is a "money loss to the consumer" (which I think is arguable, but never mind), I am saying that it is literally,...
Cents are "fractional" too--a 1/100th fraction of a dollar, a far smaller fraction of real money now than a half-cent was then. Worrying about...
I see no reason this should be so. It seems the economy got along all right in the 1950s without half-cent and one-mill (one-tenth-cent) coins,...
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