And there you have it... https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-81/pdf/STATUTE-81-Pg77.pdf [ATTACH] A travesty in three acts...
PL 88-580 didn't suspend mint marks either. That was part of PL 89-81 the 1965 coinage act... [ATTACH] The trick to figure out the question...
Switch to decaf... I was calling Wikpedia stupid not an individual. We pride ourselves here at being better than Wikipedia and better than...
Stupid is as stupid does ——-Forest
So the next coin show buy a generic silver and copper round. Sand off the surface with a belt sander to make both equally flat (and this will have...
No you can't, the copyright goes to the person who first expressed the idea
Back to the coinage act of 1965... note the "SHALL" [ATTACH] (This is a floor price) ASW of a silver quarter is 0.1808 troy ounces, so there...
Nothing. Public Law 88-580 ALLOWED them to keep striking 1964 silver coinage.
@mikenoodle yes there was. @jorglueke is correct. In general, EVERYONE, PLEASE stop citing wikipedia like it's holy writ. At least go one more...
I've often wondered if it isn't part of a strategy to sell expensive fakes. Use real 90% silver and, once you have the master dies, make both...
Glue? Try a soak in pure acetone and see if it comes off...
The other thing about a waffled coin is you know it's an actual error. May never be able to tell WHAT kind of error, but it's not some parking lot...
The other thing to remember is that there's no reason when faking a $35 or $35,000 coin not to use $15 of silver...
I was there Friday and Saturday, both looking for stuff AND as a volunteer (I belong to two of the host clubs, so I gave two shifts). Didn't find...
3.2 is a little heavy for copper and way to heavy for steel. Likely a plated normal copper 44.
The 40% is net (by weight), from two layers of 80% silver/20% copper bonded to a pure copper core.
Please go and delete the bookmark and unfollow the idiot on YouTube. The valuable 1970 dime without a mintmark would be the one from the proof...
File an FOIA request ... unfortunately, Treasury doesn't participate in the common portal, https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/home...
At best, it was a trivially misaligned die, but not enough to be valuable (look up MAD at https://www.error-ref.com/). After that, it's been...
The problem with these articles is that it's totally dependent on how you allocate the fixed costs of the mint as to what cost per coin you arrive...
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