Contact the University of Michigan medical center. My oldest brother went to them with metasticized melanoma and they gave him five good years,...
Looks like that pallet originally held 200 monster boxes, or 100,000 silver eagles.
Not as bad as the great turkey "Who's Minding the Mint," which was actually about the BEP............. The best part about this movie is that...
Find the oldest published version of the myth that George Washington threw a "silver dollar" over some river and see how that story called the...
John, you know more about large cents than I ever will, but if two Type Two planchets, with upset rims, were to enter the coining chamber at the...
I think you have hit the nail right on the head.
Exactly. There was nothing in it for them except the work it would take to verify that you were not cheating them with a short count or slugs....
Might be WW1. Google DeLorey-102 for a similarly themed WW1 piece.
In 1944 the Philadelphia Mint used up its leftover 1943 steel cent planchets to strike Belgium 2 Francs coins. That is one possible explanation...
Glad to see that I am not the only person who caught this. Not Mint Set crimper damage. What it is, I do not know.
These are so obviously what they are, why do you need slabs at all?
Stop worrying about this. Just throw them in the trash and be done with them.
A very nice error. Congratulations. Really speaks for itself. Don't know why anybody bothered to slab it. Would love to be able to see it out of...
Thanks for the laugh!
Not a coin. NOT SILVER. Just plated with .999 silver; that's what the "100 MIL" means. Basically worthless.
Speaking as a former professional Authenticator, I would say that I see absolutely no reason to suspect the coin's authenticity, and that it does...
Neat. Did you look through the online back issues of The Numismatist for 1991?
Because it could only work if they had a cash window at a few designated sites where people could walk up, get the price at that moment in time,...
You raised the issue of the "monstrous fuss" over the introduction of the Buffalo Nickel. If you want the facts of the controversy, which is in...
This. Burdette's books are much more professionally researched and written. It is so sad that he is banned from a certain other numismatic chat room.
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