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Your circulated DE has been defaced with a punch. There is nothing to suggest why this was done. Some US gold coins were stamped with an "L" at sub-Treasuries to indicate light weight as part of the post-1870 recoinage of light gold. A few escaped melting. Your coin is NOT one of them.

I have no means of knowing what the tiny sample in a holder is made from, or who provided the samples, or any other information. It could be a slice of homemade ladies pantaloons from the Prairie Home Companion. That something is in a plastic holder attests to very little.

Show your evidence. Documents, sources, etc. Contracts for bag manufacture only refer to cotton Duck. No US mint ever used burlap for coin bags.

"Roasters" "Sunday dinner when the preacher shows up and the whiskey is out of sight."

PS: No US Mint or Treasury coin bags are known made of burlap. The source of your information - which is not given - likely picked a word that came to mind rather than checking facts. You should try the same.

Your source is wrong. Here are a couple of letters identifying coin bag material. Cotton Duck fabric, 8oz weight was normal. Rough burlap was tried in the Philadelphia M&R Dept in hopes of catching gold or silver vapor before it went up the chimney flues. It was also used as temporary insulation around ice and to wrap steam pipes. Burlap is never mentioned in mint documents relating to coin bags. Burlap is a rough, loosely woven cloth made of fibers from jute and sisal plants. It was commonly used for holding farm animal feed with the bags used for barn netting, seedling plant frost protection and wrap for transplanted ornamental plants. It is far too abrasive for packaging coins, and it lacks durability. Duck is heavyweight tightly woven fabric, made from 100% cotton often referred to as canvas. Treasury Department, Bureau of the Mint, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1885 Hon. Daniel M. Fox, Superintendent U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, Pa. Sir: - Your letter of the 18th instant giving the result of proposals received to supply your mint with duck canvas of not less than 8 oz. to the yard, has been received and the award made by you to John Welsh at 8 3/8 ¢ per yard, is approved. Very respectfully R.E. Preston Acting Director. James S. Gary & Son. Baltimore, May 14, 1894 Eugene Townsend, Esq., Supt. United States Mint, Philadelphia. Dear Sir: My contract for furnishing your Mint with 8 oz. Cotton Duck for Coin Bags for the year ending June 30th next is approaching an end. I will be obliged if you will let me know if the material furnished exactly suits your purposes, and if not, in what way you would like to have it changed. I can make almost any width up to 44” and any class of fabric you might want. Our business is making specialties and I would be glad to alter the fabric to suit. I have seen no advertisement for your next year’s supply, but if you have gotten up the schedule will be glad if you will send me a copy. Yours respectfully, E. Stanley Gary

Early Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) [January 1918 until December 1922] coins in gold, silver and brass were collectible although not especially popular. It was succeeded by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in December 1922. The Soviet era coins before 1941 are difficult to locate in Unc condition.

Worn, damaged -- entirely typical and no added value.

Bags were made from canvas, not burlap.

In 1966 the initials FS were added to recognize the designer, Felix Schlag.

What a croc.

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The City and County of Denver. Police Safety Manager Frank Downer posted a $10,000 reward....dead or alive, or anywhere in between.

This letter to shyster Farran Zerbe was discovered during recent document imaging at NARA. As with the 1915 PPIE commemorates, Zerbe earned primary blame for poor sales of the coins.

This is the only presscopy (fuzzy) and transcription of Denver Mint Superintendent Grant's notice to the Director of the robbery that took place in front of the mint. I'm not sure if it has been published before. (The transcription was made by SW I am working on. It took 5 seconds to complete (the transcription not the SW.) Denver, Colorado, December 18, 1922 The Director of the Mint Washington D C At ten thirty this morning Federal Reserve Bank Denver automobile called at Mint to get two packages Federal Reserve notes fives amounting in all to two hundred thousand dollars. Just as they got the money in the automobile in front of the Mint a machine drove up and ordered the guards to throw up their hands. One of the Federal Reserve guards was shot probably fatally and in the melee the robbers got away with the money. The Mint guards and clerks fired about thirty shots at the bandits automobile as they left and we think one man was wounded. The Federal Reserve guards and bandits were in such position it was hard for our men to shoot from the windows on account of not being able to distinguish one man from the other. The number of the car was gotten and the police department were on the trail inside of two minutes. No results so far. The front door of the Mint was all shot full of holes by the bandits trying to keep our men in the building. Will advise if bandits are captured. Grant, Superintendent ________________________________________ GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BUSINESS CHIEF U S MINT

The Saint-Gaudens DE thread you started is, as far as I know, unique on message boards. It is filled with excellent, perceptive questions and ought to be read by anyone who wants to collect the series.

I'll have to check the enabling details on that, but the gold clause suggests it.

This thread on the "Other Side of the Tracks" is one of the best ones in several months (in addition to the 1922-D cent threads). It deals with auctions of a couple of design models of favorite coins. (The only error in the thread is that the Buffalo nickel item is a bronze cast, not a filled galvano. Those were not generally used until the mid-1920s.) https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1101764/likely-unique-walking-liberty-half-plaster-in-upcoming-stacksbowers-auction

In 1927 you would have gotten 10-20 at hard labor. Until April 1933 you could have gotten gold coin, silver coin, or silver certificates. After July 1933 only silver coin or any kind of paper currency except gold certificates. You would never have gotten gold bullion unless you had $5,000 minimum and went through a large bank and paid a 0.5% premium. (FRBs and Treasury did not handle bullion.)

Zebo -- I understand the argument and historical context. However, without a statement of nominal value on the piece, it is merely a bullion token and not technically protected from counterfeiting. The same applies to any other coin-like item and is a primary separator of medal/token from coin.

The crown-size pieces have no denomination and are properly classed as commemorative medals. Sovereigns (with a few exceptions) are gold bullion pieces with no fixed legal tender value. They are no more coins than any other undenominated bullion. Just an opinion.

Imitation made for cheap jewelry by unskilled labor.

Yep. Everyone here can tell it's a fake...just tourist trap stuff.

"Mycolect" sounds like a microbial disease, or maybe.... "... colonization of the gastrointestinal tract with Bacteroides fragilis expressing an immunodominant bacterial polysaccharide, through dendritic cell activation and induction of a TH1-mediated response, leads to a splenic response characterized by normal numbers of CD4+ T cells, lymphoid architecture, and systemic lymphocytic expansion."

Can't tell anything from the photos. Graffiti ruins the coin, although Sacajawea dollars are not worth a premium, anyway.