RWB

More counterfeits. The decision is one of law applicable to everyone; you or I don't get to make individual decisions about obeying the STOP sign.

E-235 (Letters sent) Vols 51-54 will be digitized tomorrow.

RE: "Off center Pennie’s" [sic] Please let members know when you find one.

A confused mixture of opinions, assumptions and unsupported measurements. This tango goes backward so many steps I've lost count.

Nice coins and photos!

Were "Late Die stages" part of the reason for the Pony Express ?

American coin presses were all US made until the mid-1960s. The first generation of toggle presses were built at the Philadelphia Mint.

Take and axe to it -- quick !

Early mint technology is seldom presented in any form, and when it is, it is superficial and almost naive in its "gee whiz" language. Franklin Journal and a few mechanics' publications have only scattered reference to coining technology. Matthew Boulton's technology is the only "large" body of work, plus some tiny bits in German. Neither of these show up in American usage until well into the 19th century.

My basic question is: "When will ANA get a backbone and take aggressive action to support and protect collectors?"

Some of this resulted from discovery of an 1826 nation-wide inquiry about foreign coins in domestic circulation, and the responses. Others come from collector questions such as " "How did coins get into circulation?" or "Why didn't the US Mint move to Washington in 1800 when all the other Federal Departments did?" or "What kind of steel was used for early dies and how was it made?"...and so forth.

It has already taken more time than the original. FMTM covered a lot of the basic, extant material. MMTM has to work with fewer good original sources and articles in technical journals.

No, merely that mirror fields had long been associated with "proof" coins. The SG and other "renaissance " coins could not be uniformly polished, hence, not mirror proofs.

Polished fields and frosted devices go back to the earliest US master coins. Copied from Soho Mint tokens. It's nothing new or innovative.

Clearly a more aggressive reverse interpretation. The C-III unicorn seems to have something around its neck. Presumably the King selected these long ago.

As for time frame, it has shifted from 1830s to the 1790s, and now includes information on die steel alloys, circulation of foreign coins, reason Mint remained in Philadelphia, along with some later materials for power production, equipment and processes - this includes the most complete description of the large screw press used to strike proof and pattern coins until 1894. Finally settled on a title "More Mine to Mint" -- not very creative but fits with the first book title. Haven't picked a cover illustration.

Chomp.....

fill them with wheaties and give 'em to kids.....

RE: "Nina Otero-warren found in bank roll" Honestly, I thought she was taller....

The 1938 steps clearly go upward, and 1940 steps obviously go downward. (In 1939 they had an escalator, but it kept breaking.)

They cover some of the period Linderman auction interference by Dir. Kimball. Haven't had time to search carefully.

The following boxes and volumes were digitized last week, and should appear on NNP later this week. The Boxes (letters received)cover the end of 1900 and the volumes (letters sent by HQ) cover late Dec. 1886 to June 30, 1888. Together, these include about 4,000 pages of original material. E-229 Box 127.pdf E-229 Box 127 Cashier Daily.pdf E-229 Box 128.pdf E-229 Box 128 Cashier Daily.pdf E-229 Box 129.pdf E-229 Box 129 Cashier daily.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 45 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 45 Part 2.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 46 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 46 Part 2.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 47 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 47 Part 2.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 48 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 48 Part 2.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 49 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 49 Part 2.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 50 Part 1.pdf RG104 E-235 Vol 50 Part 2.pdf

US Mints and assay offices scrupulously tracked gold and silver. They went to considerably lengths to recover as much as possible. The P and SF Mints had retaining sand wells where waste water from operations was channeled. This was cleaned out annually to recover silver and gold. (No water went directly into city sewers. I don't know if the Carson Mint sewage pit was ever cleaned out - but it might have contained enough gold/silver to make it worth doing.)

Coins with a fin are simply less well made than the later ones without a fin. The pushed up metal designated nothing except an improper match between planchet, die and collar -- not, as Sir Wally Wombat claimed -- extra force used.

There are no HR "proofs." I referred to the pre-HR pieces that were supposed to be melted - but we don't know much about them except they evolved into the MCMVII HR coins.