81 was a year the SF mint was dialed in and struck many beautiful coins. You just know it was one of theirs.
It's not the mint its Congress. There are several designs the mint could change on their own authority because they've been used for 25 years....
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No It's all in circulation. Banks (and other users) send in what they take in and order what they need.
No The W mint quarters were taken to Denver and Philadelphia and mixed into the one-ton ballistic nylon bags that are sent to the contracted coin...
Quite agree... the designs look from horrible to quite nice in the pen&ink drawings they release. The jump to a proof coin loses a lot of the...
What was the coin? It could well be a perfect storm * It sat a while with the dealer before it was actually sent it * It ran into the lockdown(s)...
ENTRY POST Just because it's the oldest... [ATTACH] I fish this out whenever somebody starts the "what is your oldest coin" threads...
Arguably the entire series is illegal. The President signed the bill after Congress adjourned, but within the ten-day period. There are actual...
Also, remember that there are differences between precious and non-precious metals. Most precious metal standards include a hard minimum value. A...
Very roughly @PamR, you can focus on Mint State coins: Where you are looking to collect the most perfectly preserved example of the Mint's...
Coins in the same roll are not typically sequential from a sngle press. One of the coins could have come from the die that clashed and was...
Manganese brass reacts with the environment easily and in different ways. The end result is frequently an unpleasantly grey color. The...
It's the old comment, if you don't like the way he drives, stay off the sidewall.
"Golden" dollar not Gold dollar. It's made from a copper core clad with Manganese Brass that has a golden hue. Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coin |...
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