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On April 30, 1915 , the Mint Director told the P Mint Superintendent to make new sets of dies for the PPIE dollar gold piece and fifty cent silver piece with the San Francisco mint mark and forward t… (View Post)

The mintage and coinage history of the 1866-S No Motto Double Eagle needs to be tweaked a bit. I copied this text from the two prominent grading services online sites. Citation 1: It is likely that 1… (View Post)

Years ago, RWB sent me a large file of Archival material to look at. The following is one of the letters or information contained in that file. I found it to be an interesting slice of California’s G… (View Post)

The New York Assay Office of Gold did a tremendous amount of business with the Philadelphia Mint. Her customers would make gold deposits that were melted down and turned into fine gold bars. These ba… (View Post)

The Mint of the United States at San Francisco, Superintendent’s Office January 28, 1904 Hon. Geo. E. Roberts Director of the Mint , Washington, D.C. Sir: I regret to have to again call your attentio… (View Post)