Since this one is a 1991D, we know that it should be copper-coated zinc. Because of their vastly different melting points, with copper at 1085 C...
They'll probably try to open the dollar coin to get the chocolate out!
I would say die deterioration because what you're showing is displaced radially from the motto and the date towards the rim whereas machine damage...
Not necessarily. Some banks have a set number of boxes they can order for a flat fee that they pay the armored company, so as long as they don't...
Yeah, $500 is not too far off, based on recent examples sold on eBay.
I think the big problem with all of the new designs is that the sketches we see are always shaded and when the shading is there, they don't look...
Wow- you've already found 4! You must have hit upon a nice supply of them. I say, keep buying those boxes! I would also suggest looking for the...
Gotcha- and I think my own distinction between variety and error is quite similar to your own, and that I was just thrown off by the phrasing in...
Here's an additional bit of info, from the PCGS coin lingo site: http://www.pcgs.com/lingo.chtml?Letter=R It occurs to me that perhaps the...
CONECA only lists the populations that have been sent in to them for inspection. This is the standard 1942/1 overdate in the listing that we're...
I think you may be confused about how the mint makes dies- they stopped punching the dates by hand roughly around 1900. Until 1997, each die...
I found a '99 earlier in the summer, and found a '98 too.
Not sure where this definition comes from, but it's not consistent with die variety searchers' definition since an overdate is actually considered...
Thanks! I wish you good luck in your searches.
Nice finds!
I have found around 6 total steel wheat cents out of 600,000 cents searched. In fact I did just finish the 2nd volume of cents from circulation,...
I don't see an entry in the Krause catalog of world coins for the Liberia coin, but other, similar, $20 Liberian coins with American themes are...
Here's my post from a few months ago about results of 200,000 cents searched: http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=26461
When I read the title, the first thing that came to mind was a quarter that is impervious to error, like "water proof matches"- an "error proof...
My understanding is that the accepted definitions are something like "variety" is anything that is on the die itself, thus making multiple...
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