The OunceDesk Archive
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ArchiveSources
The Numismatist, vol. 8
American Numismatic Association · 1895 · American Numismatic Association
ARCHIVE5 recorded usages
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Every claim below names the page it rests on. This is the join the Archive exists to make: the same source id that a book chapter cites in its markdown is the id a reference page cites in its data.
- —"The 1794 Dollar" — a collector's letter giving the star-orientation and hair-curl diagnostics that separate a genuine 1794 from an altered 1795. Still a working field guide.Early Dollars →
- The Fakes, Shown OpenlyReadThe ghost census, the shipwreck that never sailed, and the Mint as its own counterfeiter — the series' syllabus, photographed.
- The Way of SeeingReadNo two dies were ever alike. An 1881 auction catalogue taught the hobby to read them — and the skill has never stopped paying.
- Twelve MarriagesReadA teaching set, ranked by lesson rather than price: attribute these twelve and you can attribute the series.