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Did you know this was the scarcer Type 1 reverse when you bought it?
With his permission to quote: "FMTM starts roughly with 1836 - the big year of Peale's innovations. Earlier, individual punches were used, which...
I think "engraved" and "cutting" might be used in a generic sense, which doesn't necessarily exclude "punching". I'll ask Roger. From Wexler...
I think it's all bunk. As far as I can determine, there was no reason to hide opium in the US during the era of the trade dollars, and as said...
I'm not so sure about that. Barber dimes show signs of the M E R A in America being punched more than once. When the O mint mark first was used,...
I recall letters from congressmen in the NNC archives in the 1900-1901 time frame where Omaha, Council Bluffs, Tacoma were all lobbying for a...
And at least later with the Barber dimes (which I'm more familiar with), they coined proofs in batches quarterly based on customer orders - March,...
There's an N in UNITED so they probably had N punches laying around... We could ask the same about S instead of F, or why CC instead of just C -...
I should have mentioned that $10 in 1971 was mowing two acre-sized lawns. @cplradar I love the cameo against the blue on yours.
You did a good job with the photos. Even PCGS can't take a good picture of highly reflective coins (theirs come out brown for some reason). As...
Avoiding confusion with New York seems like the most logical explanation.
Maybe FMTM has an answer. Seems like it's not one size fits all. I've seen die polish lines parallel but going almost perpendicular to each other,...
This is a pretty good short read on the process and history. "How Dies Are Made" https://www.doubleddie.com/58201.html I think of a hub as a...
While comparing obverse die polish, I started wondering "what's up with that mole on Liberty's shin"? [ATTACH] There are many examples with an...
I don't know this series but I enjoy online sleuthing. It didn't take me long to find more than a dozen proof examples on PCGS and Heritage with...
It bothers me about them but I don't perceive it as unethical - just lack of time/lazy. Look at their website (non-ebay) Barber dime inventory,...
My only purchase from them was 2 years ago, via ebay. I had the same concern about their stock image language. I sent them a message asking if the...
Heritage had this to say: "The tiny mintage of 2,300 pieces nonetheless exceeds that of the 1871-CC, of which only 1,376 pieces were struck....
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