Here are some more TV shows you could add to your list: Show : Episode Title : Coin Monk : "Monk Meets the Godfather" : 2-headed pennies from...
There is another episode of this TV show that people have talked about titled "Raid on the San Francisco Mint" starring Ronald Reagan. That one is...
Death Valley Days was a long-running TV show about the American West Frontier. The episodes were based on actual historical occurrences. I knew of...
The one that I did in gold did not come out perfect. If I can get it to work by over-striking existing Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles in gold, then...
I expect to start striking the Knights of the Coin table medals later today. I've been working on the blanks for them. Fabricating the bi-metallic...
Here is the original Saint-Gaudens plaster sketch: [IMG] The reasoning for the counter-stamps is that even though these are "fantasy" coins, they...
Genuine, corroded, heavily cleaned.
The Hard Times token is 39mm (1 troy oz . 999 silver). The over-strike Peace is slightly over 38mm (about the same as it was prior to the...
We are at the same point of contention as always. There is a distinction between striking a known coin type on a virgin blank (and deceptively...
The Committee, in their final analysis, brought up the fact that altered US coins are only a violation if the altering is for fraudulent purposes....
This part appears in that same document (in the "Analysis" section after the part you quoted): Lastly, the Commission does not propose modifying...
We've all heard your same complaints many times. You should expect the same response. What I have altered does not meet the government's criteria...
None of this takes into consideration the over-striking of genuine coins to clearly impart a date which was never issued. The outfit that...
The contention that the "1964-D" over-strike Peace is somehow different because they were previously minted is invalid because the issuing...
Because obviously there was no fraudulent intent.
Thanks, I got the shape of the helmet correct also (unlike the chosen design) ;)
Thanks. The rifle is a model 1903 Springfield. It is just a quirk of the model that the US Army had in 1917. [IMG]
The US Mint conducted a limited invitation-only design competition for the WW1 dollar. The only design that the US Mint published from that...
Any zinc Lincoln cent that I dig out of the ground while metal detecting.
"SS" ? Secret Santa or Secret Service ?
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