HOME James Curtis Booth served as Melter & Refiner of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia from 1849 until shortly before his death in 1888. It was in that capacity that Booth was the primary catalyst in Congress’ passing the Coinage Act of 1857, authorizing the production and circulation of the country’s Small Cent. In particular, …
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Don’t Trust Attributions without Proof
HOME Even today, LFEs are slabbed by third party grading services (yes, that includes PCGS and NGC) without prior X-Ray or Scanning Electron Microscope testing having been performed on the coin in order to definitively establish whether this attribution is correct. Two major research studies have been conducted in which pre-testing LFE attributions were compared …