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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Asher, post: 24614649, member: 80285&quot;]Since the US Government apparently saves every document ever handled, there is a great archive of coin/treasury/mint related stuff. I&#039;m finding the correspondence between citizen and Mint to be most interesting (for now).&nbsp; It seems like proof sets were ordered in this manner of the attached PDF.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is the hand-written letter to the Mint Director asking for proof sets from 1889 along with a handy OCR text because I can&#039;t read their quill and potted ink writing.</p><p><br /></p><p>To save you the trouble, the body of the letter is:</p><p><br /></p><p>Minor coins are ones without silver or gold I believe. In 1889, there was:</p><ul> <li>Indian Cent</li> <li>Three-cent Nickel</li> <li>Liberty Nickel</li> </ul><p>That&#039;s $0.09 and the buyer is asking for 5 sets for $0.60 ($0.12/set), a 3-cent premium? He could have asked for 6 sets. Am I missing something?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are interested in these kinds of historical documents, go to:</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/ordersfiveminorcoinproofsets18890715/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/ordersfiveminorcoinproofsets18890715/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/ordersfiveminorcoinproofsets18890715/mode/2up</a></p><p>and scroll to the bottom. You may find yourself in a rabbit-hole <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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