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Yes, thank you. (View Post)

The lack of certain characteristics on this mint mark, while not enough to condemn the piece, would have made me give it a second and maybe even a third look back when I was authenticating these. The… (View Post)

Just as an aside, a comment on the distribution of die varieties within a low mintage year. When I started at ANACS, when it was still just doing Authentification, I learned the die varieties and dia… (View Post)

Are you completely discounting the possibility that they first appeared in the back rooms of Philadelphia coin shops in late 1859 or early 1860 before being clawed back? I like to think that it could… (View Post)

Since the Denver Mint did open its own die shop in 1996, it would have both unhardened and hardened dies in the die production pipeline. Assuming that these and other unauthorized markings were added… (View Post)