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This short article might help.... https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-08-26/goldrush-in-turkey.html

Josh - Here are two of your photos. It is obvious they are not identical and thus not from the same die. The only thing visible is common mechanical doubling, of which there are likely millions for just this one date/mint nickel. Member Sandon reviewed this and provided an accurate explanation. Please stop watching the false coin videos on U-Tube etc. You are simply being lied to by them.

New record for most consecutive posts by a hostile member during winter. Congrats !

Interesting --- use of late 19th century technology (except for heat sealing). If it works, it keeps overhead low and provides jobs.

What did it cost to put it down....?

The U.S. entered the war in 1917, so it was no longer neutral.

Extremely unusual request for a Civil Servant.

Last week the NNP completed a short term document digitization project at the National Archives in College Park, Md. This work added more than 76,000 ( ! ) pages of press copy letters written to all of the U.S. Mints between 1902 and part of 1921, and stored in RG104 Entry 235. Much of this material has been resting, untouched, for more than a century. Interested numismatists can view these and other NARA materials on the Newman Numismatic Portal at: https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Archives?searchLetter=U. Sample letters have been posted elsewhere on this forum for your enjoyment and comment.

...but not without a little confusion. First coins off the presses were 40,000 quarters, delivered on the 15th. These were followed 12 days later by half dollars all of which were in demand as the first locally coined money of any kind since the Clark, Gruber & Co. days. But the new mint's real purpose was striking gold mined in the upper Midwest. As with any new enterprise there were a few bugs (or maybe prairie dogs) to get out of the system. In this instance, the "prairie dogs" had dug a big hole into gold coinage accounts, and the mint director wanted explanations. Read through this carefully -- you'll find errors on both ends of the discussion. ["Coins struck" normally includes defective pieces, so that the delivery quantity is nearly always less than those struck. But a delivery might include more pieces is some had been withheld from a prior delivery.]

This popped up as an interesting letter relating to U.S. neutrality during 1916. Here is the presscopy image and an automatically generated transcription. Subject: Serbian Coinage. October 3, 1916. Mr. P. H. Pavlovich, Royal Consulate General of Serbia, 442 West 22nd St., New York City. Dear Sir, Referring to your letters of September 13th and 23rd, and to reply thereto from this Bureau dated September 26th, relative to proposed coinage for the Government of Serbia, I beg to advise you that upon consultation with other officials of the Department it was again held that this government should not, on the grounds of neutrality, and for the reason that money is regarded as conditional contraband of war, undertake the execution of the coinage desired. Regretting our inability to serve you in this case, I am Respectfully, [Signature] F.J.H. vonEngelken Director of the Mint.

All are AU (About Uncirculated) based on what is visible in the photos.

No meaningful errors or varieties -- just ordinary die wear during use.

Check their value as scrap metal.

There is no such critter as a "proof mint set." There are proof sets - brilliant mirror fields with frosted relief (modern sets). There are mint sets - normal production circulation coins packaged with one coin of each denomination from each mint. Also, the US Mint has sold several variations on these such as proof sets in circulation alloy, or in silver alloy.

Look on the back --- it says "ONE CENT." That's its value -- in AI or IA or even LA.

This is how malicious rumors begin....Let's end the matter immediately.

There was an eagle hanging out at the Philadelphia Mint, and his name was Peter. He was found with a damaged wing and could not fly. At some point he fell into the flywheel on a coinage or cutting press, and that was his end. He was stuffed and became a decoration around which an elaborate and false tale was concocted. Peter never modeled for any coin; and eagles (and other raptors) have been cultural/political symbols for thousands of years.

The cent is not deceptive, but can be more difficult for a novice to detect. Compare the photo to a real zinc coated steel 1943-S. Notice that all details on the "bronze" fake are soft, kind-of "mushy," and rather bloated looking. (Like classmates at a High School reunion...) On the reverse, the lack of detail is more noticeable, especially on the left wheat stalk and the O in one and P in the motto.

Seems very restrictive.... What I mean is, if you have to have once been a state governor before you can sit on the ANA board, doesn't that restrict the talent pool to a great extent? Maybe I misunderstood the answer....

Poor Jeff is reduced to a mere shadow of himself....

They wanted to verify numbers - most of which were OK - and have the source data to make it easier to respond to questions.

Red storks for cents, and blond storks (all named "Barbie") for gold.

These are excellent points that pertain more to post release than to actual manufacture. There are other, lesser known examples, such as melting of 1877 half dollars to meet urgent demand for dimes, and the condemnation of defective CC dollars followed by unrecorded production of replacements 2 years later. The published mintages are, for the most part, reasonably accurate - there are few instances where discrepancies are large enough to possibly affect initial availability. As for the table. This is part of a series covering proof coins 1873-1916 that I made for Whitman Publishing about a decade ago. They wanted to validate Guide Book quantities and identify data sources.

Sorry. Did not intend any harm nor to desecrate Quintus' memorial arch. (Others got it back on track very quickly !)