Somehow I missed this story when first announced last fall... Honestly, I don't think they intend it as a profit-maker at all. I think it is a...
But the Fed does release them for circulation, from already minted stock. If banks order them, they'll get them. If you order them from the bank,...
Oh my, how I would hate this.
Probably for some transitional period. But we have got along fine for a long time now without maintaining accounts in mills. Cents are less...
I bought a beer in Reno, used a Kennedy half. The man called it "fifty cent piece." So I shot him.
We have "pennies," of course; this is the common/nickname for the one-cent coin. That's not really the issue here though. The bolded is what...
(Silver) Half Dimes and (nickel) Five Cent pieces were completely different coins, though they worked out to the same value, and both sorts were...
The legend on the pieces isn't just their "value," it's what they are. Then the "common designation" is a nickname. For example, a dime is a...
It's a question of how you view the time spent, and where you get your enjoyment of coins. If having an old coin is all you're interested in, yes,...
The Smithsonian numismatic collection is mind-boggling. However, only one small gallery's worth is currently on exhibit, in the National Museum of...
Why lament? The work is historic now itself, and rarer than the coins that went into it.
I like circulated coins, and I like consistent sets.
This is really about scientific method, more than anything specifically about coins. But it does show that, to get the idea, he looked at some...
Here is a set of bits for the six current US coin sizes.
Isn't the whole point that it doesn't?
Agreed. Small dollars?
Well, it was worth $2,500...
Yes. These designs belong in silver.
A few millimeters smaller than a dime, and even a touch smaller than the impractical gold dollars.
Wow, it really is. At a quick glance you could actually think they were the same. Seems like a stumble for program design oversight. Worse,...
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