Mint stamps Thanks for the tip Hobo, I didn't know about mint marks. Upon checking the coins I believe are proof, they have the following...
Thanks Thanks very much jcakcoin and GDJMSP. I shall read the links you provided. It's a bummer about the circulated proofs, they look sad...
I'm a novice and I've just started going through a couple of my piggy banks trying to catalog the coins I've gathered over a few years. I've run...
Shows what a novice I am, I was thinking that after 64 the coins kept silver for cladding and used copper for the core to make them cheaper. It's...
I'm pretty sure this 1965 Roosevelt dime didn't come from the mint this way...interesting copper shades. In the accompanying image, the obverse...
Learning coin I love getting the extended information about the coin. Thanks everyone for the details on how the coins were made and how to...
Wow, great info. Thanks everyone. Well, I got out my loupe, which is actually the eye piece form old binoculars but works very well, and had a...
That makes sense. I don't think I will buy any for a long time if ever, certainly not until I know a lot more than I do now. My coin came with a...
Slow going I guess that would definitely slow your Chinese collecting to a manageable pace moneyer12, but I suspect that you could do well...
Silver change still exists but it is slowing down. A friend refreshes the coin boxes for a car wash franchise. He then runs the quarters through a...
Thanks Thanks ColinG Replica was the only thing that made sense to me but as it was the first Chinese coin I have posessed or researched it...
I tried to post this before but I seemed to get kicked out when I hit submit and the message didn't appear in the forum or in today's posts so I'm...
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