The "Le Grand" Mint in, I believe, Germany has been striking a huge number of coins authorized by Cameroon. How they chose an Hindu goddess I...
Not quite sure as there were some other mints involved. If you look at Krause 2020 the 20 centimos and the One Peso in 1975 they were struck at...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] FYI: you can still find some things on eBay. I recently got this 6 coin set that is mostly matte (FM) issues and then a...
That was a 2008 thread so no this was not a new addition. General thoughts on the 1902 sets/coins was as stated previously.
It was stated at that time (2008 and before) that the dies were blasted when at least with the post-1902 issues it was the struck planchets that...
I guess what was interesting is that the coin came with the set and virtually untouched for 40 years. The bronze was minimally toned but also no...
So this coin ended up graded Proof 61 Matte at PCGS. Must say I was a bit shocked by that and entirely disagree.....
Interesting points - actually there seems to be a variance in these mattes and have been fortunate to see pretty much all of them save the Edward...
The interesting thing is that from the records I have it was the proof coins that were blasted with whatever medium and not the dies. Steve Hill...
I don't especially want to give away my own bias, but this is a coin that has me wondering about the TPGs - and not because it is my coin. Do they...
Yikes, at some point might want to be on the selling end... I have a couple of updated but still very poor pictures of the OP coin: [ATTACH]...
Well, not entirely excusing it, but FDR (IMHO one of the greatest USA presidents ever!!) got us out of the Great Depression AND WW II by use of...
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