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A great history photo, thanks for sharing.
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05/27/2015 8:16 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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MsPenny & All,
The person to thank is Fred Weinberg. He's been passing out post-card size photos of this for years. He gave me an 8x10 that I placed in a Lucite display stand and taken to many shows and I can't tell you how many folks try to buy it.
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05/27/2015 11:08 pm
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I can't tell you how many folks try to by it. don't you mean buy? love the picture Mr. Potter! it is one of those things you fall in love with right away and I cant blame people for wanting to by buy it. thanks for posting this and all the other posts of yours, veeery educational. BTW, I was able to find and pull out that tombac Cud for you  Feel free to call me Will.
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05/27/2015 11:07 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow! U got me! I did mean "buy" it. Kewl on the Cud!  Edited by koinpro
05/27/2015 11:09 pm
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Feel free to call me Will.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Ok guys, I give it up. I be more careful in da futu!
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The basic coin sorting/counting machine as we know it was not invented until the early 1970s, as I understand it. Remarkable if true, given the automatons, slot machines and other arcade gizmos that easily date to the time of this photo. I don't know about sorters but they had counting machines back then, the mint didn't normally use them though. According to Roger Burdette automatic counting machines were not in common use at the mint until after WWI. As late as 1917 the Federal Reserve recommended against the use of counting machines because they were slower than counting boards and caused more damage to the coins, especially gold coins. (An experienced person could count 2,000 coins per minute with a counting board.) Counting boards were used for smaller coins and gold while large coins such as halves and dollars were counted by stacking. The Mint continued using counting boards into the 1930's. Frankly I think the picture would be better if they had converted the image of you to greyscale before the inserted it. Right now it jumps out at you as being faked. In grayscale I would look more like you "belonged" in the picture. Edited by Conder101
05/28/2015 2:27 pm
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Frankly I think the picture would be better if they had converted the image of you to greyscale before the inserted it. Right now it jumps out at you as being faked. In grayscale I would look more like you "belonged" in the picture. Could not resist "fixing" this oversight...  |
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 Ok, Condor & JBuck! Lets be picky! Actually, it looks good! I'll go down into history as being there!  Edited by koinpro
05/28/2015 4:11 pm
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Now you need to lucite that one and show the pair off!
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Pillar of the Community
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Much better! I was going to do it for you if you hadn't. |
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You guys are cracking me up!
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Posted 05/27/2015 8:18 pm
