It's still easy, just more expensive (to buy a congresscritter).
No. The H.W.Bush legislation ONLY allowed his coin. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/457/text .
I mean, today we call it market grading to differentiate from the technical ANA grading of that era.
A2 is the Grade: Full Strike / Brilliant Surface. the c is "commercial" not flat. If it were flat, it would be A3-64
Gotta keep up a good thing Thank you @BuffaloHunter If I win please give it to @SensibleSal66 Something cheerful? I cracked a database problem...
Def. I say that I have no normal friends because normal people are BORING.
A: We like our ducks a bit strange, it livens the place up. And he's by no means the weirdest duck around, and don't begin to count the other...
It's only going to get worse as more and more is AI generated garbage.
Yes, it is churlish of you. I'm sure you have your own quirks. Meow is Meow and we take him as he comes.
Cam's site hasn't been updated since his death in 2010. Lucent owned the patent and when Intercept Shield the company closed up in 2006, they...
They go through a "riddler" which is a sliding metal grate with coin sized holes. Oversized coins like this can slide through if they hit the...
@Pickin and Grinin your Intercept Shield is ICG-001-1-7. I haven't cleaned up the ICG stuff yet, but they did an endless parade of Courtesy of...
This news piece from 2017 says "about 10 years back" or 2007...
You have it backwards... there is a block around 300,000 which doesn't have the bar code. But the defining characteristics of the change over...
All of the low all-number slabs I have, do have the barcode 0-block: 75, 127, 761, 1422, 1424 7-block: 70195, 70395, 77384 15-block: 150420,...
Yup. That's the reasoning/permission behind the .900 to .999 switch. When the mint was making their own blanks, they used purchased pure silver...
No 0.900 fine. For example, the Greatest Generation coin act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1057):
Gold COIN alloy is fixed by law as 0.900. Not the mint's choice. 1/10th 1/4 1/2 and 1 ounce "Eagles" (American Gold Eagle, AGE). AND they have...
Nobody else in the world uses 0.900 fine. It is actually cheaper - even with the extra silver content - to use 0.999 fine.
Circulation coin strikes spill out of the press into giant bags for distribution, so they tend to come from the same pair of dies. Die chips...
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