In contrast, I volunteered to read daily Skylab news updates over the PA system at my elementary school. (That was the beginning of my journalism...
Your collection is amazingly cool, as always. But, if you're going to call out mass as opposed to weight, shouldn't you really be using slugs...
Witness all the folks bidding against each other to pay hundreds or thousands of times face value for simple old dollar coins -- even ones clearly...
On the other hand, it's good that they plated an already-damaged coin, rather than ruining a good one, I suppose.
A solid gold cent would weigh more than that. 49-50 grains is about 3.2 grams. An unplated Indian cent weighs 3.1 grams. I've seen an article...
I can see the reasoning behind it -- eBay loses a bit to merchants on gift card sales, and they probably collect their smallest fees from...
Interesting idea. I can't imagine that @dcarr would have equipment suitable for producing large-sized replicas, but I wonder if he has CAD files...
A shame you can't use gift cards on them any more either. :(
Mint to demand. Wouldn't want to fuel demand with an artificial shortage. ;)
I'm not sure I'd call that "advanced" -- it would be dead easy to spot; just put the coin on a flat surface next to a legitimate example.
Exactly. It's solely a matter of marketing manufacturing demand.
Dibs on 1964.
A dollar FV of uncirculated clad coins (dimes/quarters/halves) is supposed to weigh 22.68 grams. A dollar FV of uncirculated silver...
The '55 DDO calls to mind another good example. In 1955, as in other years, the Mint used dies until they were used up. Late in their life, they...
Yeah, but some of it is really, really good original material -- witness the posts immediately preceding this one. I'm not leaving while there's...
I'm not very good with faces, but that looks an awful lot like a TRVMPIVS!
I suppose it wouldn't be sporting to point out what happens if you, say, accept a payment of $100 in those legal tender coins instead of $1200 in...
No, although it did take me a good bit longer to decide that it didn't. :) It seems like you're inferring further limitations around the intent of...
I don't understand at all. If it's illegal to make a die in the likeness or similitude, where does "intent" come in? They made the die. They then...
And I think that's the very key point. The law is aimed at protecting the money supply. It has little or nothing to do with protecting people who...
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