That and the fact that each coin costs close to 2 1/2 times what each gold mercury did.
This seems reasonable with one possible problem. Is the person who dumped in the coins being credited with the rejects as if they were regular US...
The picture of the date shown in the CPG picture that Paddy posted matches the image of LM-3 in Federal Half Dimes 1792 - 1837. The image in...
And then comes Roger Burdette's research that shows that the 19th and early 20th century proofs were struck just ONE time in the mint's Medal...
The first few coins from a new die will be PL and then as microsopic flowlines start to form on the die surfaces the PL fades away.
I know you meant that is a GOOD way. :)
So it's a privately issued sterling silver medal with .7 oz of silver in it. And it claims to have been issued for the Bicentennial of the...
It absolutely can't be LM-18 or LM-6. The red stripes in the shield are made up of three stripes. On LM-18 and LM-6 they only have 2. (Also on...
It might have been too basic. Sometimes when something is so widely known people can tend to gloss right over the actual question in search of a...
Well you also have the problem that the people they need to hire are NOT readily available. It's not like when they get really busy temporarily...
And if you compare his Maine design with what the Mint produced, I think they basically copied that one too.
In the early years the back up could sometimes reach as long as six months. They didn't have the different tiers back then, nor as many graders,...
It is a one oz silver medal from the US mint using the design from the $100 ultra high relief gold COIN that they issued last year. The...
Appears to have been made by the Franklin mint (mintmark at the bottom of the rev) probably for a set of State Governors.
Also the strip will vary in thickness. It will not be absolutely uniform (That's why they have a tolerance allowance. If the strip was...
In your close up picture of the area in question on the obverse you point out "ledges" in the field that are above the surface of the field....
Before that time they did attribute a lot of redbook varieties and some others. Many of those were wrong too. (In those earlier years there were...
I hope it looks better in hand because I'm not impressed.
Any idea who made it?
A quarter, pocket change, common junk. Actually 100 years ago in 1916 they probably would have called a 1917 D quarter a counterfeit. :)
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