One must also recall that proof dies were often used for business strikes after the last proof coinage was completed. However, the striking data...
4. Somebody paid to have it originally graded at NGC. Doesn't that highlight the absolute absurdity of the crossover game? The only people...
Yep. Fat finger/poor memory. Thing to recall is that they didn't have modern die steels, nor tools like indirect read thermometers and gas fired...
With the FEC, the 88-12 Copper-Nickel alloy was much harder than anything the mint had struck before. And the relatively large breast of the bird...
The more widely it circulated in China, the more wear and chop marks it acquired. There are some truly abysmal specimens.
@KBBPLL : From the ANA article "The second striking, at the mint’s new facility on North Seventh Street, occurred on October 9, 1792, yielding...
Cool... Matt has posted some of the stories on IG. [ATTACH]
It gets better. If you read the ledger, the first half dismes were spent that night at a coaching inn, almost certainly as a tip to the...
STOP REPEATING THAT DEBUNKED BULL **** The coins were struck from 75 Mexican silver dollars that Thomas Jefferson had deposited in the mint to be...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", Essays: First Series, 1841
From 1967's report https://archive.org/details/annualreportofdi1967unit/page/32/mode/2up?view=theater [ATTACH] There are also tables by...
I was answering a ? over on Reddit and I found the data I've always heard about but not seen. Specifically, around the minting of 1964 dated...
Unix epoch timestamp, value is null. The epoch is the number of seconds since 1/1/1970. If you don't have a value (null), well, if you don't...
Who you calling OLD brother? My oldest machine used SIX BIT paper tape.
And only from one mint. Unlike the endless parade of Texas.
It's still easy, just more expensive (to buy a congresscritter).
No. The H.W.Bush legislation ONLY allowed his coin. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/457/text .
I mean, today we call it market grading to differentiate from the technical ANA grading of that era.
A2 is the Grade: Full Strike / Brilliant Surface. the c is "commercial" not flat. If it were flat, it would be A3-64
Gotta keep up a good thing Thank you @BuffaloHunter If I win please give it to @SensibleSal66 Something cheerful? I cracked a database problem...
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