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It costs money to ship existing coinage. New halves cost something like $0.18 to make, so with seigniorage the government makes money. I'm not sure how they split things between the US Mint and … (View Post)

It's not "an additional pass through the refining process" to go from .999 up to .9999 A friend of mine was VP of production for a major supplier of ASE planchets to the US Mint... The… (View Post)

The PL coins were struck just after the proofs using the same proof dies. Given the deep polishing of the dies for the preceding proofs, there are some very eye-catching PLs out there, even a few DPL… (View Post)

Good looking coin. (View Post)

This doily holder is missing its outer security band. So, there's less value in this doily holder to destroy if someone were thinking of cracking it out and trying for FB. (View Post)