So....you want to research the US Mint archives? Be prepared for this....

Here's just one of the many kinds of things you'll have to dig through. This happens to be a clerk's workbook for keeping running balances of gold and silver coins.

And sometimes, security can seem a bit agressive.


And sometimes, security can seem a bit agressive.

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102 capped bust half dollars - 100 die marriages
BHNC #198
Lance.
<< <i>Wow! It's hard to believe important data like that was managed with a notebook and fountain pen.
Lance. >>
Computers were down that century I guess!
<< <i>Wow! It's hard to believe important data like that was managed with a notebook and fountain pen.
Lance. >>
Looks like it was written with a pencil
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<< <i>Wow! It's hard to believe important data like that was managed with a notebook and fountain pen.
Lance. >>
Computers were down that century I guess! >>
The invention of the digital computer was still five years away from that '32 entry date.
Great stuff again RWB.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Hmmm...I though they continued to use clay tablets ?