I wasn't aware that they operated these in only two locations. They operated at least from mid-'68 to mid-'69 but the official line was still...
I suppose because I consider the two cent piece to be almost exactly twice as stupid as the one cent piece. On this basis I half expect Congress...
Yes. It would have substantial value as a dime struck on copper (unclad) strip. Try just balancing a couple regular dimes on a ruler and...
With sales of $10,000 per day they can just raise prices .001% to make up for the loss caused by people who stop filling just below the cut-off...
Personally I would mourn much more for the later cents. The earlier ones have been set aside in collections and dealer stock but the newer ones...
The cost of fabrication is probably over one cent for any metal. There is no material cheap enough when you add in the cost of making the coin....
The law of averages says that for just about every time you round up two cents you'll round down two cents. Every time you round up one cent you...
There is NO net gain or loss to anybody by rounding. The government already allows rounding to the NEAREST DOLLAR on income taxes. Do you...
Normally I'd agree but not in the case of pennies. Most of the cents in circulation are zinc and these are highly toxic to babies and small...
I understand your point but strongly disagree. The biggest problem is THAT IT"S IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE CHANGE. More importantly really is...
We have a coin that costys more to produce than it's worth. Every time it is handled and counted it costs more than it is wort. It's not worth...
A few months ago you didn't even need to sort these. Just melt the entire bunch and pour off the zinc which could be sold at a small profit and...
The FED will melt the pennies as soon as they are removed from circulation. The Canadians didn't wait. They are removing and melting all the...
If the copper strip is punched out and then run vertically between rollers (upset) there will be very little metal at the edges of the planchet...
Thanks for the info. The author must have been referring to the clad proofs since the silvers would have required much less striking force.
A lot of 19th century coins were saved so there are simply millions surviving of many. Coins were usually made of "good metal" so there was...
All the important events in history happened long before coins were invented. There was language, then agriculture, then finally writing. The...
I disagree. I think it's a very valid question. Most US coin collectors demean modern US coins because in their mind a coin has to be old to...
It's the shape of the mint mark. The type II has a large, bulbous, "fly away" serif at the top and the type I looks a lot like the '79 type II....
I've been wrong before. My understanding is that mint set coins are struck with somewhat more force than proof set coins which are struck...
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