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Scroll down to page 114 and it starts talking about Zerbe, page 116 is a textual description of some of what was inside his display, the photo shown above, page 118 talks about the coins, and there i… (View Post)

Seems 81 years later those muskets got an upgrade. 12/6/1879 - The Mint got approval for 20 breech loading carbines and 1000 rounds of ammunition to replace the "Old fashioned muskets" And … (View Post)

That vortex is quite mighty! I'm still reading through old mint records, trying to keep a file with bookmarks to interesting subjects - every time my wife walks by the computer, all I get is the… (View Post)

I've read records of dismissing employees for intoxication - the below letter seems to imply while at work though. For the Carson Assayer - wonder what type of due process they got back then, or… (View Post)

After all the 1972 Doubled Dies on the Lincoln Cents - the Mint went back to a past practice of putting lugs on hubs and dies for better alignment. I wonder if 1973 had a small learning curve with th… (View Post)