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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4015323, member: 66&quot;]They exist, at least the 1900-O micro O&#039;s exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for why make fake 1900-O&#039;s, well if they are contemporary counterfeits a dollar was from 1/3 to 1 days pay for an average workman.&nbsp; If you could make&nbsp; a fake dollar at a cost of 30 cents or so you could make a good profit.&nbsp; You could even make them from good 90% silver which would make them MUCH more likely to pass because silver was around 45 cents an oz at the time.&nbsp; If you had even a simple screw press you could make about 20 coins a minute if you had the planchets on hand.&nbsp; So work 10 hours for $3, or run your press for 10 minutes and make $200 (average income for a workman was under $1000 per year at the time, but the counterfeiter could make a fifth of that amount in 10 minutes.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the title saying &quot;no&quot; mintmark, he could have been trying to indicate a New Orleans mintmark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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