OK the confusion was because because the thread was about the distribution of NEW coins.
The legislation that authorized the state/ATB quarters already specified that at the end of the series the reverse would switch to Washington...
Yes, the COA is real, these sets (coin and defaced state quarter die) were sold by the mint to collectors. I believe they were $50 apiece. I...
You see new coins in all grades?
I hadn't either when I did the transcription, so I googled it and learned what it meant. I'm not aware of any survivors, and there is no...
Looks to be post mint damage.
As Jack says the fake reverse is based on 1804 C-6, but the fraction has beed extensively reworked. The 2 has been poorly reworked, they have...
I only have three, from documents I transcribed for Roger Burdette. Not much to them, just brief letters about the planchets, I believe where...
I have no idea why they did it, I just know that they did.
If it was made after 1973 it's not in compliance with HPA. COPY has to be incuse.
Well each person could keep up to 5 oz, and if you said your gold coins were part of a collection you could keep those as well (except you...
The US mint did experiment with aluminum plated copper blanks for cents in 1916 and 1917 but nothing ever came of it.
More of a medal than a token. A token was good for something in exchange, it had some kind of negotiable value even if it wasn't stated (such as...
Metallic mercury is not absorbed through the skin.
True, but if you place it on the waters surfaces VERY carefully you might be able to get the waters surface tension to support it. But that's not...
Yes they could have, but they didn't want to. We didn't finally get completely off the gold standard until 1971. They were still trying to keep...
A good mix of NEW coins?
Hey, how can this be? I thought coin collecting was supposed to be dying and there weren't any young people in the hobby! :D
Can't tell if it is a hit or a crack in the planchet.
Probably not. Much more likely is that part of the case is hiding part of the rim and making it look misaligned.
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