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Yes on the half dollars for five ounces but with a catch, subsection x (the women’s coins) appear to only be for quarters and that program runs first. So half dollars with new designs potentially onl… (View Post)

Below is the language from the 2020 Coin Redesign bill that authorizes 5 oz quarters and half dollars. Note, however, the ‘Crossing the Delaware’ quarter is not part of this bill, so a 5 ouncer for t… (View Post)

I read the other day that the initial legislation for the Ike dollar was supposed to have “We came in peace for all mankind” on the reverse along with the Apollo 11 mission patch design. The mint wis… (View Post)

Commemorative in a layman’s sense versus a numismatist’s, I think. The Ike dollar, like the Kennedy half, was issued shortly after the general’s death and was thought of as a ‘commemorative coin’ in … (View Post)

Yes, the bird creature is definitely a plague doctor. It was the doctor’s form of PPE back in the day: a beak shaped mask with herbs stuffed in the beak to filter the impure air, glass covered eye op… (View Post)