Huh....you're saying that all those were created for a few dealers ? I'm only familiar with the 1913 Liberty Nickels and I thought they were a...
Buy 'em both ! :D
Or The Avengers....:D
I hear they were planning to invade Egypt 5 or 6 years later and this Korean thing happened.....:D Imagine the frustration.... "Damn, we're...
They tried to get the coin back....but he was an ally in this little thing called World War II..... and they decided to prioritize defeating this...
Great story, Sal.......:D I was given Mint Sets and coin rolls in the 1970's for birthday and Christmas presents. When I overpaid one year's...
Yes, and that's the mentality I was trying to show existed in my posts....there was a STRONG hatred of guys like Switt and even a dislike for...
If anybody is into Indian Head Eagles, this catalog may be of interest:...
Yup, and remember.....this license wasn't known until Fenton's lawyer (Burke, who also represented the Langbord's later on) uncovered the Treasury...
How about....they're idiots ? :D They should have just placed the seized coins in museums or added them to the Smithsonian Collection. Instead,...
CPLradar, we are just going to have to agree to disagree.:D I enjoyed the back-and-forth: hard fought, but civil and respectful. I want to...
Nobody thought the coins would be destroyed at the time otherwise they would have asked higher-ups why spend $$$ minting coins that will be melted...
Actually, the 1933 Saints started to be struck on March 2nd, 1933 -- during the Hoover Administration. The governments records on 1933 Saints...
Oh, they were never MONETIZED !! Like every other coin other than the "Farouk" coin: :D [ATTACH] The government came up with the monetization...
Source ? They were never circulated, so how could they be pulled ? :D
The Mint and Treasury say otherwise. Actually, he never mentioned it. Had he run on a policy of taking American's gold holdings, he might not...
Even the Mint/Treasury said the public could exchange coins up to April 12th, 1933.
But not those with numismatic or sentimental value. That wasn't clear at the time -- in fact, the Mint struck 1933 Saints up to May because the...
If the Cashier had the coins, they were available to the public.
It's not clear it was prohibited from being exchanged, that's the point. And we don't know WHEN the exchange took place, since it could have...
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