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As one of those who signed the original August 1992 Rittenhouse Society letter some comments are in order. All of us were fully aware of Walter’s other life and had no use for it. JCH22 castigates th… (View Post)

STONE January 03, 2010 If you don't mind notwilight, I'd like to continue this thread by stating that I feel that the Jefferson Head Large Cents are contemporary counterfeits. I don't know how likely… (View Post)

The confusion over the 1857 and later figures is due to the Mint changing their reports from a calendar year to a fiscal year basis in July 1857. The 1858 report, for example, covers the last six mon… (View Post)

What RogerB reproduces as a screw press was actually called a Lever press in the early Mint documents as there were two kinds of screw presses used at the Philadelphia Mint in 1795, the Lever and Whe… (View Post)

Very good with but one minor correction. Cent planchets, made by Matthew Boulton of Soho (near Birmingham, England), were received at the Philadelphia docks in late November 1815. They were stored in… (View Post)