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Modern high-speed, high-pressure coin presses would not last long if they were not lubricated. So yes, some kind of industrial grease still needs to be used. We sometimes get the wrong idea when talk… (View Post)

Definitely a counterfeit. As noted above the size of the numerals in "1847" is wrong for the type; those proportions are more fitting for the 1847 dollar. Nobody inside the mint would be re… (View Post)

Gold alloys can be "fingerprinted" (that term is usually preferred to "DNA test", though both are technically inaccurate since there's nothing biological about the tests). Fo… (View Post)

I think it is really a matter of affordability. If "the young people" (however that's defined) seem uninterested in collecting "the classics" (however that's defined), i… (View Post)

Press reporting a the time shows that it wasn't Barber that was the instigator of the initial's removal, but Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh. There was some suggestion to repla… (View Post)