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Inscribed along the edge of the coin is the year of minting or issuance of the coin, the mint mark, 13 stars, and also the legend E Pluribus Unum in the following arrangement: ★★★★★★★★★★ (mint year) (mint mark) ★★★ E PLURIBUS UNUM; before 2009, the national motto "In God We Trust" was also part of the edge lettering.
Mint striking errors are caused by the collar moving, cracking, or not being present in the minting process. The collar is a third die that actually holds the coin in place in the minting process. It is the collar that imprints the lettering on a coin, such as the lettering on the Presidential dollars.
A Castaing machine, on display at the American Numismatic Association museum.. The Castaing machine is a device used to add lettering and decoration to the edge of a coin. . Such lettering was necessitated by counterfeiting and edge clipping, which was a common problem resulting from the uneven and irregular hammered coi
A standing edge strike occurs when a blank "bounces" so that it is standing on edge as it is struck. Striking pressure produces edge indentations where the dies strike, and sometimes bends the blank. Repeated strikes can produce a coin that is folded flat. . Chain edge strikes occur when two blanks are fed into the space between dies at the ...
Harrison eventually agreed terms with A&M Records for the latter to distribute his new label worldwide. [16] [17] For a company name, Harrison used the title of a song he had written in 1973, "Dark Horse". [18] The inspiration for the Dark Horse Records logo came from a label on a tin that Harrison found during a trip to India. [19]
Before he passed away, Harrison battled addiction and even went missing in 2016 after a relapse. At the time, Jack, 62, issued a plea via social media in hope of finding his son.
George Harrison's Dark Horse material had been issued on CD in 1991, but was allowed to go out of print some years later. By 2000, he was keen to reissue his entire catalogue, [1] but only managed to oversee the 30th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass before his death from cancer in November 2001.
William Henry Harrison was the seventh and youngest child of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison. Born on February 9, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation , the home of the Harrison family of Virginia on the James River in Charles City County , [ 1 ] he became the last United States president not born as an American citizen. [ 2 ]