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Nasty -- but is this a strike though or post production? The edges of the incuse area seem oddly curved and the adjacent field lifted a bit.

Yes, it is "another question." The feeding/ejection mechanism in a horizontal press differs from the old vertical Ulhorn-type toggle press. Thus, any type of damage to dies and/or coins will differ.

Please explain how this happened on a horizontal press. Thanks.

Nice Peace piece you received. Good to keep it safely in it's original home.

It was not my intent to dissuade anyone...I bought a couple of them myself and will keep them. They are nice for what they are, not what they "might have been."

Isn't that what a hobby like this is supposed to be about - sharing information and experiences.....

Have you tried very large electromagnets? I hear that Fermilab's 6,800-acre site in Batavia, IL might have some used ones for sale or rent. Perfect for the next "Chicago" ANA show.....

The cent has been processed, replated, and has no collector value.

Modern die finishing is fine. It is the bloated inscriptions and date, lack of sharpness, and numerous unnecessary errors (esp on the reverse) that bother me the most. US Mint technology is capable of making reproductions that are almost indistinguishable from the original - yet here, again, they failed. Further, there can be no excuses about "die life" - the current 2021 production is tiny and dies are relatively cheap.

If anyone wants to save a PDF of the catalog, they should do it today. when the sale ends tonight, the catalog will (I think) go off-line.

The coin shown is just an illustration. There is no information on coin dates or their disposition except what is in the article.

Below are composite photos of the 1921 Peace dollar cast and the best detailed reverse (top), and the 2021 imitation made in 0.999 silver (bottom). The photos were adjusted to the same scale. The composites are 2000 pixels wide (reduced from 5000 pixels) Differences in lighting are responsible for some of the discrepancies. Careful comparison is invited.

I usually pay the difference in pocket lint -- although for larger micro-sums, a few places accept clothes dryer lint.

Union City, Tenn. June 13, 1885. The circulation of a large number of silver dollars made in the thirties and forties created considerable comment in business circles here. They were in splendid condition and looked as if they were just from the mint. Upon investigation your correspondent found out that $850 was found a few days ago in a carriage house on the place of the late David Debow, four miles from town. The money was hid by Mr. Debow during the war, and he forgot the hiding place or some one changed it, and he was never able to recover the money. After his death a search was made by his son, with the above result. Five hundred and eighty dollars of the money was in gold. [The Tennessean, Nashville June 14, 1885. p1.] This suggests about $270 was in seated Liberty dollars.

Your neighbors have their own church? Do they evade property taxes that way?

For now, just skip it. The SW contractor has to fix the problem.

Another bug from the IT contractor.

All cash transactions would be rounded up to the nearest 10-cents, or down to the nearest 10-cents. If the total sale was $2.45 (with tax) the customer would pay $2.40; if $2.46 the customer would pay $2.50. Over multiple cash transactions the customer would average a loss of 5-cents over the sum of all. However, some state sales tax systems create a bias toward 0 to 5 ending digits, which skews the customer loss to about 3-cents averaged over all cash transactions nationwide. The merchant ends up with about 8-cents average loss over a year as a result. Te result is that no person will gain or lose for than a few cents - in total - over any longer time period. The argument that this would impact low income people is specious - losing or gaining less than 10-cents over a year is meaningless money. Further, since this applies only to cash transactions, all other payments are totally unaffected. With continued reductions in the number of cash transactions, fewer people will be affected over the next decades.

Millions would be saved each year merely by eliminating the one cent and five cent coins. Legislation requiring rounding in cash transactions would mean no one would gain or lose more than 3 cents a year.

Numismyth -- "All coins with privy marks were struck in West Virginia." This is false. There is no US Mint in West Virginia.

The first Morgan silver dollars shipped out in March 1878. After that, I'm not sure.

By an out-of-collar distortion, I meant only a minor out of round - not noticeably oblong or oval.

Gosh....that's a mouthful !

We have a dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar, and dime ....What happened to "tenth dollar?"

PS: "Columbium" is the obsolete name for "niobium." It has been this way since 1947; no idea why Inco and others used columbium.