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Try to cultivate a good working relationship with a Brick & Mortar coin shop. Tell them that should they happen to buy in a deal of fractional...
The rumor, which I consider quite plausible but which has never been confirmed (to the best of my knowledge) is that Russia struck counterfeit...
Back in the late 1960's the U.S. Treasury and/or Mint and/or Federal Reserve Banks used to use some sort of machine to sort out silver coins from...
These didn't happen to come from China, did they?
Nice. Is it "symian" or "simian?"
Might have a bit of glue on it. Nothing special.
Unfortunately that quarter is just a regular coin reduced by something acidic. Just worth the scrap value of the remaining silver.
I love the Fugio!
Thank you for posting these contemporary comments on one of America's most shameful coins.
Could not do the checking as I could not find my Krause to show the pre-war compositions of coins not struck at a U.S. Mint. For example, the...
Let us discuss "Possibility" and "Probability." This coin is "Possible" because when the San Francisco Assay Office began striking Special Mint...
Gack!
Excellent topic for a thread! I grabbed my copy of "Foreign Coins Struck at Mints in the United States," published in 1974 by Phillip Steiner and...
FWIW, before I started recycling my set, I asked the ANA Library if it wanted them. The answer was no.
Interesting question. I don't know.
Last year I finally broke down and recycled any one that I did not have an article in.
Yep!
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