The irregularity looks to be a continuous raised area going up at a sharp angle to the right, across to the left, and then down in a less dramatic...
Looked up E.O. 6814 on DuckDuckGo and it was not a long read but rather confusing in Section 2 para. c, or (c) depending on which search result...
Based on the OP, I just found the Carson book at Abebooks. Thank you
I saw this newspaper article and thought that copper or, in this case, probably zinc would not be valid debt payment since the pennies were no...
I remember Merrill-Lynch. My first and only attempt at getting "professional" financial advice. That professional fellow went over to UBS (U Bin...
An attempt to promote the Penticimal system of coinage? Anyhow it's a very, very nice circam.
I hadn't heard of a Humbert $50 gold piece before but that might explain why John Wayne was always puling out a "fifty dollar gold piece " from...
The trade dollar had more silver content than a US dollar due to competing silver coinage used in Asian trade and was legal tender until early 1887.
My late father-in-law (a retired Navy Captain) insisted on placing a coin under the main support column of the house I was building in the late...
At my first real SSN-required job in a liquor-newsstand-soda fountain store, I remember cigs (red pack so probably Pall Malls) with three pennies...
#13 is the choice for me. What struck me is the lady Salus feeding a snake. I wondered why that is and that sent me down a rabbit hole. Salus...
[ATTACH] for some reason, I only have the reverse on file but it's just as nice on the other side.
"Mister. What is the longest ship in the Navy?" "Sir, the USS Maine. Its mainmast is in Arlington cemetary and its foremast is at the US Naval...
The ship on the $2 note is the USS New York from an engraving by C.M. Chalmers used for propaganda in the runup to WWI involvement. Its sister...
Coin World discussed this Nov 2017. Neat and readable...and an escape from what may have been an incomprehensible scrawl. Interesting that it...
I looked at Powells bookstore site in Portland OR and it shows six available but is not clear on which editions or volumes they are. Taking the...
denticle,then dentil, then dentissimo
Just tell they're "four bits"
Two things come to mind: The first is an old Perry Mason episode where a jeweler is murdered fr his collectible $50,000 (in those days) raw...
[ATTACH] my favorite but I can't take credit for the picture.
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