Let's Restart A Mint for Panama! Just Kidding, Here are Some Very Nice Dies
7Jaguars
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1982 Quarter Balboa:
1982 Half Balboa:
Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
Well, just Love coins, period.
Well, just Love coins, period.
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Thats incredibly cool
@7Jaguars Nice set of dies. Are they a proof set?
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No, but I think they struck some limited issue coins - possibly the infamous 0.400 gold OMS Piefort strikes of that year as a few appear to have a gold colored residue in the devices. I do NOT have a complete set. I wish I could find a jeweler with XRF or maybe at the next Baltimore show??
Well, just Love coins, period.
That is too darn cool.
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The Franklin mint was doing sets for collectors during that era, wonder it it could be the source of the dies?
No, these are either Canadian or US mint - I think the former is what I recall. The FM coins of this era look different and have the ever-present monogram. In the 2017 sale of some of the Richard Stuart coins, Heritage says it was the US mint. And there are some spurious overstrikes of US coins of different denominations, so maybe it is the US mint through 1982 and Canada after that as far as currency.
Franklin mint struck collector coins and "currency" coins through 1985 & will try to post a couple if I can later...
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