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Variations are not mint errors in the technical sense. Variations in coins are caused by creating hubs and dies that are not exactly the same resulting in dates that can be compared as large to small, wide to thin etc.
Like other coins, the value of errors is based in part on rarity and condition. In general, lower denomination errors are less expensive than higher denomination errors simply because more such coins are minted resulting in available errors. Due to improvements in production and inspection, modern errors are more rare and this impacts value. [3]
Face value Coin Obverse design Reverse design Composition Mintage Available Obverse Reverse 50¢ Panama Pacific Exposition half dollar: Liberty in front of San Francisco's Golden Gate
Below are the mintage figures for the United States quarter up to 1930, before the Washington quarter design was introduced.. The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a mint mark):
This had the effect of placing the nation effectively (although not officially) on the gold standard. The retained weight in the dollar coin was a nod to bimetallism, although it had the effect of further driving the silver dollar coin from commerce. Foreign coins, including the Spanish dollar, were also widely used [9] as legal tender, until 1857.
United States of America, Senator Key Pittman. The Pittman Act was a United States federal law sponsored by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and enacted on April 23, 1918. The Act authorized the conversion of up to 350,000,000 standard silver dollars into bullion and its sale or use for subsidiary silver coinage, and directed purchase of domestic silver for recoinage of a like number of dollars. [1]
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