I would spread it around as well. As I said it is an improvement, but the new institutions could fail as well so their stocks could become...
Frankly this sounds like an improvement. Under the current system any deposits over $250,000 in a failed institution would simply be lost. The...
Not a cob, and not a "silver doubloon" Cobs were irregular in shape and ended in the early 1700's. A true doubloon was a gold 2 escudo, though...
Dis-locations Works as a play on words three different ways.
NSP beat me to it. I come up with S-245 as well. Look at the right stem ad where it points at the A (right base) and the gap between the ends of...
Yep, former encased cent.
I'll vote real.
No, and even if I did my collection would not make a good photo reference. I've mentioned this several times. If you want a good one use the...
Not if you are familiar with them. Even ignoring the raised lettering it is easy to spot.
The people mentioning the date are correct, the shape of the 6 is wrong.
But you won't find tolerance information in the Redbook.
One well known example is the spike chin half cent. But I will agree that for a foreign object strike-through to do damage to the die it has to...
Ignoring the crack it does appear to match B-23, and it appears to be a late die state. I don't know if this variety is known for this crack in...
The mint didn't have the coins they were out in circulation, but once the content changed in 1834 the older coin were worth more as metal and the...
Correct, once the war ended the Mint immediately ordered planchets from Bolton. They arrived in December 1815 and they immediately began striking...
Better reference for specs on US coins is the Coin World Almanac
He is talking about the fact that on the 20 cent LIBERTY is in relief on the shield instead of incuse. There are other differences as well. If...
But the 50K enhanced Sac is the key to that set, the RP Kennedy will only be a semi-key for the President dollar set.
The 1804 class 1 dollar. I'm just not into gold, and the Class II and Class III dollars are just restrikes made to try and sell to collectors....
The longest continous date run you can have is 1816 - 2015. No cents were made dated 1815. I lack about three or four dates of having a complete...
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