Will buy all of yours at $12.13 an ounce.
The $2-1/2 is genuine. The $1 is hilarious!
Worthy of numismatic study as a group, but individually they look like junk box coins.
Yes it does, John. It is an imitation numismatic item, regardless of what it is made out of. That means that it is required to have the incused...
The U.S. Mints do exercise due diligence. That is why U.S. coin errors have collectible value. If they were common, nobody would care. How many...
What Conder101 said. When I was working as an Authenticator for ANACS in the early 1980's we used to take our Summer Seminar students up to Denver...
Run, Forrest, run!
Looks like a Proof to me.
Excellent!
A few three-coin sets without mint marks were made and "presented" to the three designers and President Ford's representative, and one or more...
Double Huh?
Correct. The no mint mark Proofs were made in Philadelphia in August of 1974. There was a photo op there with the three designers and a...
My opinion is that we need a reliable weight for the coin before we can proceed. The only number I have seen is 12.50 grams, which can be read...
Back when I was at ANACS we received a Julius Caesar Denarius that was in one piece when we opened the package but which fell in two when I went...
This thread reminds me of the old adage: "No good deed goes unpunished."
Yes, get a weight first.
Back when I was authenticating at ANACS these Albanian pieces were very controversial, and often were returned as "no decision" coins. I see that...
If the early Proofs of both 1936 and 1950 were inferior because the "knack" of striking Proofs had been forgotten, the Mint could have responded...
@chascat Exactly. The same thing happened in 1936 after a 20-year hiatus in making Proofs. The guy(s) responsible for Proofing dies quit, retired,...
The OP's $2 piece is a cast replica copied from a Bashlow "restrike." As a fake it has little or no value.
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