I think I swallowed a few of these in 61
Is the die made all at once or are the elements added separately ? such as first the head then the lettering ( I'm talking about the making of the...
so the hub is "printed" on the die so to speak
I think the incuse lettering is on the reverse eh?
It amazes me what metal and machines can do to each other Don't think I've heard of Hub Doubling - is that the real deal ?
Yeah but why didn't the letters get affected
Will try to produce photos to show this, but what I see is Georges face doubled as if caused by machine doubling but there is no doubling of any...
seigniorage (cool word) I had never heard it uttered before
Seems like CRH customer wrapped rolls and Mint Bag Hunting are two separate sports
So the mint sells both bags and rolls (at a premium I believe ) It seems to me the bagged coins would be pretty banged up by the time I received...
Who needs red, I prefer my Cents brown
Cool word
I would like to see the big head in silver ( then I could afford to buy one )
what about their chocolatey goodness What about their chocolatey goodness
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This coin was struck medal style not coin style (if you know what I mean )
[IMG] is it OK to cut and paste images from the mint website ?
[IMG] I guess this will be on some gold eagles , what about silver ?
Are mint workers allowed to collect coins ?
Whoa there - had to get out the Funk and Wagnalls to look up extant.
I have heard that story although I thought the butts went for 9 cents. [ATTACH]
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