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Here is the 2007 BST link to Barry's complete date set that I mentioned earlier. A very rare occurrence, maybe the only complete Bust dime date set since the 2006 Jules Reiver auction. I also recall … (View Post)

Dollar, Scotland. I will go there someday. My mother's maiden name was Dollar which is Scottish. The word and monetary unit dollar is derived from German thaler, and dollar is supposedly an English s… (View Post)

@JCH22 asked: Nyberg, William F. Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty. Staunton, VA: American History Press, 2015. WorldCat Library listing: https://search.worldcat.org/title/919106086 (also in ANA and ANS… (View Post)

The most in-depth published research on this subject was in Don Taxay's The U.S. Mint and Coinage: An Illustrated History From 1776 to the Present. Taxay wrote a 15-page chapter "Congress vs the… (View Post)

Overdates can be from a leftover unused die (one exception on .50 1806/5 O.104 was a used 1805 die), or they can be from a mistake - accidentally punching the previous year and then overdating to cor… (View Post)