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BEP's steel plate engraved edition is a wonderful reproduction. Last time I checked, they were being made by hand on a large plate press. The same technician had been doing most of the work for sever… (View Post)

This is part of a series of letters regarding use or sale of the old Clark, Gruber & Co. coining equipment from Denver, Colorado Territory (formerly part of Kansas Territory). The correspondence … (View Post)

Sometimes. See the multitude of posts with artificially toned coins in major TPG holders. (View Post)

There were bunches of bills for mints or assay offices all over the country. All appear in the Congressional Globe or Congressional Record, etc. The closest to construction in the modern era was in I… (View Post)

Use of typed reports and correspondence was required by a Treasury order in 1897. However, typewritten Mint documents have been seen as early as 1879 - probably a Remington Model 2 which had upper an… (View Post)