The small cent was introduced in 1857. The five-cent copper-nickel alloy coin was introduced in 1865. That's not much difference.
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Supermarkets do this every time there is a coin shortage. It's a cheap loss leader (often less costly than the 25c/pound Turkey) and it gets...
There's no way I can see to keep a 5g "nickel" using zinc. Density of the 75% Copper - 25% Nickel is 8.93 g/cm³. A 5g "nickel" is then 0.56 cm³....
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A little basic research goes a long way. The mint director's annual report presents the costs and seignorage (profit) for each denomination....
We know they make their data available to NGC and PCGS, who report auction prices in their population reports.
ASEs are a separate section, 5112 (e) [ATTACH]
I know. And changing the mass to between 4 and 6 grams is similarly unachieveable. Where I too don't see how you get to 5 plus or minus 1 G if...
Posted this ATS... https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12572 3 of the 4 were referred to committee at the beginning of the year and nothing...
What kind of dog? We're coming into the colder months, and a nice Berner or Husky might keep you warmer...
FWIW, I follow Bethany on IG... she's mostly focused on her Antiques business (and rescue cats) and she was in Texas on the 20th at a major...
More likely somebody bulk submitted a few rolls and asked NGC to label them that way.
If you submit enough coins under the bulk tiers (or negotiate it), they'll put something on the label. OP's coin is Generation 13 - Common....
16mm x about 5mm - class two lines of about 5 chars each.
(Hopefully somebody can pass this along) How much pressure does it take to properly stamp a quarter? I have access to a 1 ton arbor press and a...
Find the US Mint director's reports from the period and you will see charts of gold production and deposits... (I happen to have these on my hard...
Oh, yeah, that was several years ago... https://www.davidlawrence.com/dl-hansen-collection And...
That's your 1st 2nd and 3rd mistake, trusting an AI instead of reading the first paragraph of the presser. Now if I was a nasty suspicious...
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