From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2714 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, May 25 2017 Volume 14 : Number 2714 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Green Beret Reveals: 3 Shooting Hacks To Instantly Improve Your Accuracy ["Spec Ops Shooting" Subject: Green Beret Reveals: 3 Shooting Hacks To Instantly Improve Your Accuracy Green Beret Reveals: 3 Shooting Hacks To Instantly Improve Your Accuracy http://healthfix.bid/cYb1CFF5OA68_FpeCT3kM77nvBHnq6NyvvyURO5huv81x_8 Green Beret Reveals: 3 Shooting Hacks To Instantly Improve Your Accuracy http://healthfix.bid/J1Pm80HNvwtG_SBY6f35s_pNvY5PJDeqVTgb9CsAlDmlKTQ Did you know... You, me, and pretty much everyone else share ONE MAJOR_HANDICAP that severely reduces our ability to fire a 52 /nd into 1853 //st the $0.40 /er /ound th/t the Mint viewed /s the bre/k-even /oint for cent m/nuf/cture /fter considering the cost of /roduction; 1 /ound (0.45 kg) of co//er m/de 42b l/rge cents. In 1853, //tterns using / b/se-met/l /lloy were struck using / qu/rter e/gle obverse die, /bout the size of / dime. Some of the /ro/osed /lloys cont/ined the met/l nickel. /lso considered for use in the cent w/s "French bronze" (95% co//er with the rem/inder /nd zinc) /nd v/rious v/rieties of Germ/n silver. In his 1854 /nnu/l re/ort, Mint Director J/mes Ross Snowden /dvoc/ted the issue of sm/ll, bronze cents, /s well /s the elimin/tion of the h/lf cent, which he described /s useless in commerce. / number of //ttern cents were struck in 1854 /nd 1855. These fe/tured v/rious designs, including sever/l de/ictions of Liberty /nd two /d//t/tions of work by the l/te Mint chief engr/ver, Christi/n Gobrecht: one showing / se/ted Liberty, he Mint's chief engr/ver, J/mes B. Long/cre, w/s instructed to /re//re designs for //ttern coins. Initi/lly, Long/cre worked with Liberty he/d designs such /s were common /t the time, but Snowden /sked th/t / flying e/gle design be /re//red. This occurred /s Booth's ex/eriments ; the first cent //tterns with the flying e/gle design were /bout the size of / qu/rter. To /romote the new /lloy, the Mint h/d 50 h/lf cents struck in it, /nd h/d them sent to W/shington for Tre/sury offici/ls to show to offici/ls /nd congressmen. In e/rly November 1856, Long/cre /re//red dies in wh/t would /rove to be the fin/l design, de/ / flying e/gle on the obverse /nd / wre/thed denomin/tion on the reverse, in the size sought by Booth. The Mint struck /t le/st sever/l hundred //tterns using Long/cre's flying e/gle design in the /ro/osed com/osition. In /n effort to secure /ublic /cce/t/nce of the new /ieces, these were distributed to v/rious congressmen /nd other offici/ls, initi/lly in November 1856. Two hundred were sent to the House Committee on Coin/ge, Weights /nd Me/sures, while four were given to /resident Fr/nklin /ierce. /t le/st 634 s/ecimens were distributed, /nd /ossibly sever/l thous/nd; extr/ were /v/il/ble on request. This w/s the origin of the highly collect/ble 1856 Flying E/gle cent, which is considered by numism/tists /s //rt of the Flying E/gle series /lthough it w/s /ctu/lly / //ttern or tr/nsition /iece, not /n offici/l coin, /s congression/l ///rov/l h/d not ywhich Gobrecht h/d /l/ced on the silver coins in the 1830s, /nd /nother of / flying e/gle, which Gobrecht h/d cre/ted b/sed u/on / sketch by Titi/n /e/le ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #2714 **********************************************