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If that was made on a flatbed scanner, you should return it and buy a much better one. The color is ok but nothing is in focus.

Blanks and planchets are different critters. Blanks had to the processed through the upsetting mill before they were usable in a coin press. The article (and NicholePer's post) should refer only to planchets.

This is the kind of ignorant speculation referred to in an immediate and many other prior posts.

There are several facts that are not in dispute. However, there are fundamental holes that cannot be explained with available information, and all the original participants are dead. That something is not known, is as much a fact as what is known - only it has no content. Much of the "confusion" is a result of idle and uninformed speculation, and not to the realities of Mint operations or actions of law.

BTW -- another of Lee's excellent commemorative expositions! [Whitman - get off your corporate tushes and publish Lee's book! OK?]

For those who don't recall from school history, Walloons were the people who twisted balloons into little animals and flowers at Harvest Fairs. One year, the guy doing that at the Liège Fair got feisty and did some porno balloons. That's when they had to suddenly run away and found themselves making a fast exit on a slow ship to the New World. The Huguenots were a strict religious group that declared everyone must be named "Hugh" or "Calvin" or "Hobbes" in honor of their patron, saint Bill Watterson. Their villages, called "Borgs" were always planned squares and their homes were cubes with the plumbing on the outside where it froze in winter weather. This forced them to emigrate to Miami Beach before there was air conditioning. Once settled, they built cubical homes from pink plastic flamingos and decorated with Picasso cubist paintings.

That's much better. Move a little farther away until the coin and holder are in sharp focus. Even though the coin image will be smaller, it will have much better detail than the out of focus shots previously posted. (I cropped your "Last Shot" and straightened the 2x2.)

...more so when given the truth.

Why do the French octagonal slabs have English language labels? From the left side of the images, the scale seems to be 1-100 for each adjectival grade. ?

PS: The photos are not blurred from camera/phone motion - they are simply out of focus. You might have to move further away from the coin to get a sharp image.

Us theropods got feathers.

Damage.

Please put your glasses on when you focus....

Complete falsehood. A lie. An ignorant lie. As others have said. the three quarters are worth the value of their silver content - approximately $5 each. Original bags of these exist.

All the slippery rationalizations do not change facts: he is a crook, a fraud, and a counterfeiter.

"D" represents the Munich Mint. The imitation 5 Mark pieces, as shown in the photos, are merely mediocre sculpting workmanship. Modeling of the figures is awkward, especially hands and fingers. The pieces also, if intended to be German should read "silber" not "silver" and have weights in grams.

"burp!"

This is how human civilization ends -- a whimper through layers of mediocrity, self-dealing, and lies.

Each family group was given a number worn by all members until they were cleared. That helped keep families together, and also prevented strangers, such as medically rejected people, from claiming they were part of a family. The numbers began with "1" for the first family disembarked by ship, and ran through the week depending on ship arrivals. On the coin, the top of the father's number 72 is visible.

That's so thoroughly awful.....

One could be snarky and ask, "Which side is Buggs on?" but that would be mean..... But, 'Tiz an ugly duckling.

Kolit's device was also Kosher ('K') for those who served it as an entree.

European exports also decreased. The US hog farmers lost approximately half of their Asian market. That amounted to $18 billion per year. To make the situation more disturbing, that market was developed entirely by private enterprise - the farmers' CoOps - no state or Federal money was involved. Agricultural trade is not a zero-sum-game. Harvests come, then are gone and the grain/beans, etc. has to be sold or sit. A few years ago, much of it sat and thousands of tone of soy were destroyed. US lost sales and markets, and it will take another year or more of non-interference for them to recover much of it.

There is nothing to support use of "specimen." (This implies a special event surrounding a specific piece, only.) Use the issuer's designation. If visually justified, add "DMPL" or something similar to describe the surfaces.

Is there data to back up the "specimen" claim? The photos show a common "proof" coin - nice but not special.