Nice. FWIW back in the day, dies were held in place with setscrews and if the screw loosened they could rotate. Modern dies are machined so that...
Definitely not 1813... nor 1913... all five of them are accounted for. The Liberty "V" Nickel was minted from 1883 to 1912 with five 1913 pieces...
Have you considered finding a laser cutting shop? Typically you use whatever you have to create a pdf file of two colors. One color cuts through...
There is nothing in common between 1955 and 1955D except they reuse the same digits
Manufacturing the blanks and planchets is a large industrial process and certainly has errors, which get to the mint, are struck and released....
It's not unheard of for planchets to escape the plating process and be made into coins with just the zinc core. There's half a dozen certified...
The only problem I have with ANACS is their email customer service sucks. It may be just me, but they NEVER answer emails. No problems with them...
Actually the FTC regs apply......
All of these things could be solved, but it's odd how we still haven't seen the text of the bill to know what's really being proposed. most of...
IfI it's not part of the law as proposed itit mig not be legal to mint them at CC.. text of the bill is not yet available ......
The law requires that coins be marked to show the mint... 31 U.S.C. § 5132 (a)(2)(B)(ii) all coins minted under this paragraph shall have a mint...
You could... it's actually likely legal to BUY them, but it's clearly illegal to IMPORT them. Buy a cheap set of Metal punches (Harbor Freight)...
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Close... Metal fingers of the coin rolling and wrapping machines are notorious for leaving circular scrapes on the end coin. During their long...
I think it's a piece of stupid hoo-haw designed to separate suckers from their money. Celebrating the centennial of a design change over is a...
Nice. With the plancets being harder than the copper cents and silver coins, you have to figure that - beyond leaving a mark - that kind of crash...
Never could tell them apart w/o a scorecard. Something about funny hats and hospitals IIRC.
That individual is on ignore. I find that with enough whacknoodles on ignore, most threads become much more pleasant. I do see the occasional...
Especially with the low relief of current dies... It's not getting stuck deep in the die to hang around for a while
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