There is a fourth reason as well. The dies have a flat ground on the side of the die for the set screw to press against. (Easier to firmly lock...
In general no, to them they are just coins, nothing special. Sometimes some of the tellers will know to watch for silver and will pull that out...
Yes, but I can be slow to answer PMs sometimes. To answer the question yes ACG reached the 6 digit serial number level with the ACG 14 variety...
J Sanford Saltus, died 1922, Second Vice President of the ANS 1900 - 1905 and President of the New York Numismatic Club and British Numismatic...
So put the rolls in a ziplock bag with some silica gel, press out all the air you can, and seal it up. That limits the amount of contaminants...
Most of the stuff he has listed or sold are fakes, and his "Gallery Mint" pieces are not from the Gallery Mint. Fakes of copies.
Now THAT sounds like a government project! :D
If you want to put some work into putting it together, your best bet might be to create your own digital reference. The Breen early date book is...
And the edge view prongs, and the completely different logo and hologram, and the label being on the obverse side of the slab. Really the only...
Can't be done. True luster is a function of the light on the microscopic flow lines left on the surface of the coin by the movement of the metal...
Longacre doubling and machine doubling are not the same thing.
Yes that would solve it, but it would probably require a significantly greater number of bins than they can get by with by multipurposing them.
The planchets and finished coins are transported around the mint in large tote bins. Take a bin filled with finished dimes, empty it. Sometimes...
Don't think so. I believe the 1990 P comm Eisenhower dollar has a P mintmark. And there are others as well.
Possibly because oranges for eating and oranges for juicing are not the same kind.
Lucky for me I'm not a bobblehead collector. :)
We have a website!?? Been a member for 26 years and never knew we had a website. (and I have no idea who set that up.) Membership of about 160,...
And posting this in three threads is two threads too many.
Hadn't realized silver had gotten that low, change my earlier offer to $13.50
Looks to me like a WAM.
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