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Re: 1945 2½ cent pattern in gold struck by US Mint
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Re: 1945 2½ cent pattern in gold struck by US Mint
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Re: 1945 2½ cent pattern in gold struck by US Mint
Documents supporting this very unusual piece? "227" means? The central obverse does not look like US Mint work -- more like London, but anything was possible then. Gold was not struck for all those countries. US Mints produced regular issue coins for them during the war. (See "Foreign Coins Struck at the United States… -
1945 2½ cent pattern in gold struck by US Mint
Mike @Byers has this great 2½ Cent pattern struck in gold by the Philadelphia Mint using US Mint made dies. How great is it to see a US Mint made gold pattern, especially for a cent denomination! * Anyone know the reason for striking a cent denomination in gold? * It's also interesting that there is a "227" punched into… -
Re: 1945 2½ cent pattern in gold struck by US Mint
I have a spreadsheet showing what the US Mint produced for each country - All 11 Billion pieces (11,223,242,170). It shows Philadelphia made 117,706,000 2 1/2 Centstukken (95% copper, 5% zinc) in 1945 and 82,294,000 in 1946 for Netherlands East Indies. There is no mention of the gold patterns in the spreadsheet. Krause…
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