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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8395490, member: 66&quot;]But without a duly appointed chief coiner there was also no officer that the metal could be turned over to for coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hadn&#039;t considered that, but the act does say the assayer &quot; shall receive and give receipts for all metals which may lawfully be brought to the Mint to be coined; shall assay all such of them as may require it, and shall deliver them to the chief coiner to be coined.&quot; and that would only refer to gold and silver because copper was not brought to the mint to be coined.&nbsp; It was purchased by the government and coined on their own account.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS USED to grade them MS or PF, now they only grade them Proof.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Continental dollar &quot;coin&quot; was never an authorized issue and is mentioned nowhere in the records of the Continental Congress.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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