The change in mint mark size was due to a change in the minting process. In 1942, the San Francisco Mint switched from a steam-powered mint to an electric-powered mint. The new electric presses were more powerful than the old steam presses, and they could strike coins with a sharper impression. As a result, the mint mark on Mercury dimes minted after 1942 was smaller and more deeply impressed.
By Rainer Sousa Sin or necessity? This was the great dilemma faced by medieval clerics as they set themselves to the difficult task of converting barbarian and Roman Europe to Christianity. From a formal point of view, prostitutes violated one of the most important taboos of the Church by practicin
We generally know and study the colossal mosaic ofpeoples and ethnic groups who lived in the transition from Antiquity to the Medieval focusing attention on the movements of barbarian peoples to the west. However, some moved in the opposite direction and we lose track of them a little in the immens
The historical background of the Barbaren series could not be more attractive. A succession of military campaigns, beginning in 12 BC, had given Rome control of the German territory between the Rhine and the Elbe. In 9 AD Publius Quintilius Varus was designated as legate of the Germania Magna with
On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht (armed forces of Nazi Germany) began the offensive to occupy France. Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister, andCharles de Gaulle , secretary of the National Defense Council, were in favor of continuing the resistance in the colonies if France fell, but the majority of members