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@tradedollarnut Bruce, you explained with great clarity the difficulty and expense of assembling a Top Pop set of very old coins, specifically Seated Dollars. With an all in cost of $25 million for a… (View Post)

Where metallurgical and numismatic knowledge seem to clash........ The letters on the rim would look different ........if the restrike were on a work hardened brockage planchet. But a mint employee w… (View Post)

I missed that they are backwards. But that would imply that the Mint's die was an inverse die used to make production dies. This creates the possibility that this was a Mint experiment with a pattern… (View Post)

The T further to the right is clearly a T......not an E. There should be no serif to the left of the second T for an E. (View Post)

To add to my previous comment that the lines were intentional by the mint, there is no connection to the lines being radial relative to the press. The lines are radial because this allowed for more d… (View Post)