Correction This is a correction to the post where I provided the picture of the Parsons and Company bar. Looking at the picture I thought it was...
I know it's pointless to argue "truth" with a UFO believer so I'll do no more here that offer this link...
Steel cents are not rare nor particularly valuable. Just set it aside somewhere as a personal reminder of your mother.
PERSONAL IDEAS AND OPINIONS - NO FLAMING REQUIRED This is a rough explanation, with details to be determined and added and changed as...
Condor - I have PM enabled.
I don't think the photos are clear enough to tell what is, or isn't, there.
Here's an article about John Parsons. There apparently isn't a whole lot known about him. http://www.rfrajola.com/mayergold/mayergold.htm...
Small off-topic point of correction. Men with slide rules, not computers, put men on the moon. Heck, it was only 25 years ago that four-function...
Parsons & Company Assayers did produce a few round private issue coins. What you describe is probably a ingot. I couldn't find any reference to...
Offhand, without looking up mintage numbers but knowing prices, I'd say any of the 10's and 20's S-Mint Lincoln Cents. Although prices for the...
It really doesn't appear that what you see as a seven matches the seven on a known actual example. For that matter, the one and the five look a...
And a Mozart lover too. Good for him. :thumb:
with the amount of damage on the reverse of the 2-cent, you're likely to see just about anything. I think you're just seeing the effects of...
That's not a V.D.B. I see on Lincoln's shoulder, is it?
The words on the coin, "vingt mille lieues sous les mer", translate word for word to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea", another book by...
They're foil covered chocolate coins not yet stamped with a design. [IMG][IMG]
Does it weigh 3.11 grams?
The Jefferson apparently was fully struck but then not ejected from the press before the next planchet came in. The hammer die then struck the...
You are correct. H.R. 6184, as passed, does include the language you cite. The link (now dead) I provided previously was prior to the bill's...
Thank you. I really know nothing about this series and the only one I own is in my type set. Now I know a bit more than I did before.
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