Vertical displacement, not lateral.
I like Bryan Money but I don't collect them. Those are not my pieces. My handle also comes from my interest in Conder tokens. Back when the...
Did you note he said that was at the summer seminar two years ago? You have to check who the instructors were then.
Or Abebooks.com Used paper back (1987 edition) can be had for $4.04 with free shipping. You can get a hardbound 1990 for under $10. (personally I...
Yep, that's why it was passed. The .999 fine planchets actually cost them less than the .900 fine planchets. As for the proof sets, they are...
Well considering the average die life, and the number of cents struck in Denver that year, and the fact that gouge would only be on a single die,...
Second coin does have the rim to rim crack. Still not seeing a retained cud, just a die crack. I have to see vertical displacement (up or down)...
White house probably has a supply on hand and if she writes them and explains what happened they'll probably send he another on. OK she might not...
If made before 1973 legal to sell. If made after 1973, illegal to sell, ownership is legal.
Jim Thope has been a suggested subject. They may have jumped ahead to the code talkers because if you read the law as it appears to be written...
One of the major talking point by William J Bryan in the election of 1896 was the free silver question. Bryans platform call for the free coinage...
It won't have a picture. They've only done pictures on their site for two or three years, and they don't image every coin, in fact just a small...
Third picture from the U through the N into the wing. Doesn't look like a scratch to me.
The cent was also the only coin made by the Mint that year. Why? Because a fire at the Mint early that year destroyed the rolling mills needed...
I see a die crack, I don't see a retained cud.
One comment. Although it is unusual, and not as noticeable, it IS possible for the anvil die to be misaligned. It can never be far off though...
Yes there are two of us, no relation though.
Looks like a piece of Bryan Money to me. Unless it is a copy.
And the die material (bronze or iron) wouldn't hold up as well as the steel in the dies you made, so they would have to keep making new ones. And...
If the collar did develop a die crack like that, when the coin was struck the metal would be forced into the crack. Then what happens to that...
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