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@anthonythecoinman these are colloquially called Parral Pesos and they are almost always weakly struck (actually, from very shallow dies). RevMex expert Joe Flores has postulated a very logical expla… (View Post)

IMHO Stacks Bowers has a first-rate team, especially the folks in finance who cheerfully handle all my non-routine requests (Andrew, Eric, Naomi, et al). I’ll admit, there is the occasional gruff cus… (View Post)

Not an overdate, but a proof. I have a weakness for proof copper! (View Post)

A couple of others in gold: (View Post)

I think those were unofficial patterns from a private minting operation in Britain. ICN or something like that. There was a big auction of that material in the late 90s with large lots of these in va… (View Post)