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| 2022 Fiji Peace & Morgan Dollar Set
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BStrauss3
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 Posted 02/26/2025 5:18 pm
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For the record, NGC has 1,387 people posting "Morgan and Peace Dollars, Modern Issues, 2021-Date, Complete" sets.
I wasn't able to find equivalent for PGCG.
The demand for these will heavily depend on set registry requirements.
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| Beware Posting To Turkiye
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/23/2025 6:07 pm
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| You should have signed the package up for a frequent flyer account. You might have enough miles now for a free ticket to fly those coins to your friend. |
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| Pre33 Gold XRF Test Results With Ag ?
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/22/2025 12:11 pm
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You are wrong about the composition.
https://maint.loc.gov/law/help/stat...2s3ch131.pdf
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SEC. 13. That the standard for both gold and silver coins of the United States shall be such that of one thousand parts by weight nine hundred shall be of pure metal and one hundred of alloy; and the alloy of the silver coins shall be of copper, and the alloy of the gold coins shall be of copper, or of copper and silver; but the silver shall in no case exceed one-tenth of the whole alloy.
This allows 0%-10% silver, which implies 10%-0% copper as the other 90% must be gold.
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| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| 1793 Large Cents Existing Population
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/15/2025 08:48 am
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PCGS' coin facts has population/survival estimates on the rarity tab
1793 1c Chain - mintage 36,103, Survival estimatesAMERI - 187
America - 625 (plus 1 in RB)
Periods - 325
1793 Wreath - mintage 63,353, Survival estimatesVine and bar - 2,500 (plus? 4 in RB)
Lettered edge - 725
Strawberry leaf - 4
Liberty cap - mintage 11,056, Survival estimate 450
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| US Treasury Ordered To Stop Producing New Cents
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/12/2025 4:32 pm
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Did you know that early Americans in the 1790s mostly used foreign coins for transactions? They weren't fiat currency, but it was a decent medium of exchange.
They were not fiat. They were made of precious metal. And the weights of US Federal coinage in the 1792 act is based on the "Spanish" Silver Dollar standard.
The Mexican 8 reales is 27.0674g of 0.903 Silver or 24.4418g ASW.
The Federal standard from the act of 1792 set the dollar at
416 gr is 26.9563g of 0.900 fine is 24.2607g ASW.
https://maint.loc.gov/law/help/stat...c2s1ch16.pdf
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| "Quarter Dollar" Or "25 Cents"?
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/11/2025 12:00 pm
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How so? Our 1793 hard peg of our "dollar" to the SA reale made the two literally the same.
Until the Coinage Act of 1857 re-valued the "Spanish" dollar to 80 cents... |
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| Would You Recommend Grading This 2016 Unique Quarter Error?
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/11/2025 11:53 am
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Do TPGs even recognize "chips" as errors or certain varieties?
Generally, no. There are a few spectacular ones with good public relations departments that do get recognition.
It's like the Bugs Bunny Franklins (a rather unfortunate die clash), the Spitting Horse quarters (a die crack), the Speared Eagle Sacagawea dollars (a die gouge)... they're all minor, there are 1000s of other similar occurrences that don't have the recognition and "value". |
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| I Am New To Collecting. I Need Help Figuring Things Out.
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/11/2025 11:49 am
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Do be aware that the ramp for error coins is quite steep. To figure out the differences, you need a lot of knowledge about the minting process so you can tell what could and could not occur during the striking of a coin.
At least at first, 99.94% (Ivory soap certain) of what you THINK is an error is PMD (Post Minting Damage). Just accept it. |
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| US Treasury Ordered To Stop Producing New Cents
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/10/2025 09:07 am
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Let's go to the law...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112
Note that "shall" means must and may is optional, subject to other provisions & such
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(a)The Secretary of the Treasury may mint and issue only the following coins:
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(6)except as provided under subsection (c) of this section, a one-cent coin that is 0.75 inch in diameter and weighs 3.11 grams.
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(c)The Secretary may prescribe the weight and the composition of copper and zinc in the alloy of the one-cent coin that the Secretary decides are appropriate when the Secretary decides that a different weight and alloy of copper and zinc are necessary to ensure an adequate supply of one-cent coins to meet the needs of the United States.
That's it.
More generally, the mint operates as a business, taking orders from and fulfilling said orders from it's customers - coin collectors and the Fed for circulation. The Fed site indicates currency (paper money) orders but doesn't seem to list coins.
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| "Quarter Dollar" Or "25 Cents"?
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BStrauss3
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Posted 02/09/2025 11:16 am
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https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details...apII-sec5112
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§5112. Denominations, specifications, and design of coins
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may mint and issue only the following coins:
(1) a dollar coin that is 1.043 inches in diameter.
(2) a half dollar coin that is 1.205 inches in diameter and weighs 11.34 grams.
(3) a quarter dollar coin that is 0.955 inch in diameter and weighs 5.67 grams.
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(d)(1) United States coins shall have the inscription "In God We Trust". The obverse side of each coin shall have the inscription "Liberty". The reverse side of each coin shall have the inscriptions "United States of America" and "E Pluribus Unum" and a designation of the value of the coin. The design on the reverse side of the dollar, half dollar, and quarter dollar is an eagle. ... |
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