He also didn't create the assembly line, he just applied it to automobile production.
Last I knew the mint still did blanking of nickels through dollars in house. Copper plated cent planchets ready to strike have been provided by...
Mr and Mrs Hiram U. Grant.
I doubt that Ford made the first black cars. I have seen many cars that were made before Ford and most of them are black.
I believe what you are seeing on the reverse is "ghosting" of the design from the other side.
No it is $2,800 for a very rare slab that happens to have a $75 coin in it. Thank you for posting that sale of the Regency sample slab. That...
You do NOT need a die to make them. In EAC years ago we used to make things called pressings. Now we used metal foil but with a stronger press...
And that same collector just happened to be employed at the mint in 1912 and 13. (So there my be a pretty fair chance the rogue employee and the...
For starters the 1822 has the first start right up against the point of the bust. Compare the position of the first star, Sellers coin [IMG]...
RXF gun, about the only sure way. Copper, brass or bronze to me are all the same metal without the XRF readout. Color is NOT definitive.
Those were first used around I believe 2009 when the bicentennial Lincolns came out. They were used for businesses like HSN for promotional items...
It's still going cheap.
Images aren't good enough for me to see anything.
Lot easier to avoid getting caught up in the HOPE when you are looking at someone elses coins. I will admit is a lot harder to do when I'm...
PCGS certified a business strike Lincoln as MS-70. I think it was a 2003. It subsequently developed spots and is no longer a 70.
You have to wonder sometimes where that mail that takes forever to get delivered has been sitting. Even nowadays every so often a letter sent...
Your first guess was right, it met up with a hammer or something similar after it left the mint.
Grading has nothing to do with the fact that the 1829 is NOT LM-18. I pointed out why it couldn't be in my first post. If a TPG calls it LM-18...
The problem with that suggestion is the Mint can't do it. That requires Congressional legislation so you are talking to the wrong people. But...
If you are going to collect the varieties in a series, get the book that specializes on the varieties of that series. General books on varieties...
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