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Yep. Everyone here can tell it's a fake...just tourist trap stuff.

"Mycolect" sounds like a microbial disease, or maybe.... "... colonization of the gastrointestinal tract with Bacteroides fragilis expressing an immunodominant bacterial polysaccharide, through dendritic cell activation and induction of a TH1-mediated response, leads to a splenic response characterized by normal numbers of CD4+ T cells, lymphoid architecture, and systemic lymphocytic expansion."

Can't tell anything from the photos. Graffiti ruins the coin, although Sacajawea dollars are not worth a premium, anyway.

No.

A really "low ball." Ricky Raccoon's little bother, Rocky, tested line paint for State Highway Department -- until his retirement.

Hmmm....you assume too much. It is common mechanical doubling. No value.

Nope. It got a lot of mentions at first across the railroad tracks, then vanished from conversations.

"Rarity Scales" in current use are a mixture of reported mintage and opinion. In only a few instances can we look to conformable production reports. 1894-S dimes or 1895 dollars, for example. Many others are assumptions and guesses such as 1913 Liberty nickels, and 1885 Trade dollars.

What is a truly rare coin? How is a coin's rarity determined? An anonymous person sitting at a nondescript desk in an anonymous rented building at an unnamed Third World Party Grading Service orders hamburger through an anonymous food delivery service (“Bacteria Hubb”). When the ‘burger arrives, the anonymous person opens the sandwich and loudly declares “Wow! Now that’s a rare specimen!” Another anonymous person sitting at a nondescript desk in an anonymous rented building at an unnamed Third World Party Grading Service hears the remark, thinks it refers to a coin and prints a little paper label saying “Rare. Specimen.” Yet another anonymous person sitting at a nondescript desk in an anonymous rented building at an unnamed Third World Party Grading Service sees the label come out of the printer and immediately writes a Press Release extolling the great rarity and value of the thusly labeled coin. That is how it happens today. It is the fault of a sucked-dry dead milk cow and an inanimate label printer.

The newly digitized materials from NARA include a large portion of correspondence about the Saint-Gaudens coin designs. See the other thread for access details. https://boards.ngccoin.com/topic/433067-large-addition-to-nnps-us-mint-records/

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.