Not sure if this will work but here is an image of the exhibit. [IMG]
There are actually around 130 to 135 1794 dollars known to exist.
Idhair has the answer. Due to the rising silver prices the government wanted to remove the silver from all the coinage. But the silver producers...
Yep it's there, but it is not in compliance with the HPA. Too small and it is raised not incuse. Also the letting is not san-serif.
Could be he went to a school system like the one I did. We had US History for the first time in third grade and we "studied" US History in fourth...
Dimefreak, you missed my response in post #6 where I said I'd be there Fri and Sat. (and it should be "You and I". :) )
This particular misattribution tends to happen from time to time. I have seen several of these 1859 patterns slabbed as regular business strikes...
Yes you can find coins that have adjustment marks on both sides, and the practice of adjusting planchets did NOT end in the 1830's. It continued...
This is extremely oversimplified. The Bland -Allison Act of 1878 and the Sherman Silver purchase Act of 1890 mandated the government to purchase...
If more items are pr-ordered by subsciption than the Mint can produce. I was wondering if that might happen witht eh2010 proof silver eagle...
It's a charm and there was a clothing firm that used them for zipper pulls in the early 70's.
Are you sure about that? The South had separated from the Union (and the behavior of the north after the war toward the south clearly indicates...
As far as I know PCGS won't touch it. NGC does do some medals but I'm not sure it would be worth it to submit it.
I'm sorry to say that if she is lucky, they are now work hundreds of dollars.
I will be there Friday and Saturday.
Also the harder you punched the mintmark into the die the larger it would be. So different sized mintmarks can be created from the same punch.
I think you lost a decimal points. Spec on the copper plated zincs is 2.5 grams +/- .1 grams so all of those are within spec.
The cent would be placed in the hole of the aluminum blank and then struck in a press with dies that have a central hole. As the aluminum was...
And when he bought the Clapp collection that contained over 90% of the complete collection. Eliasberg just had to finish off the remaining holes....
It is corrosion. You have several things going on, You have cents that have oils and salts on them from handling, probably moisture trapped...
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