Here's a suggestion.....everybody who thinks that coin dealers should be paying close to melt for hard to refine items such as warnickels and 40%...
40% silver halves have to go through the refining process twice because of the low starting fineness. And, if you are buying them, you have to...
Appears to be an offset error. Whenever a printing plate or some printing head presses against paper, there has to be some sort of backing to the...
100% Counterfeit, but I believe only struck once. The Obverse die was doubled when the counterfeiter pressed the obverse of a coin into a matrix...
Well, it's not really a loss of metal there, the planchet was just not struck up there because there was no pressure coming through from the...
Very nice medals and writeups!
Heritage is pretty straight with their writeups. It pays off for them in the long run because people trust their auctions.
Common sense says that the credible change in status from "America's first coin" to "real spiffy commemorative medal" will hurt their value in the...
Incredibly rare.
@Rick Stachowski I too would love to see a thread about Die Pair 4. Please message me.
The straight die crack through the O of ONE, as well as the secondary radial die crack at 2 o'clock on the reverse, are not rare on 1922-D cents....
We lost two shuttles, plus the crew of Apollo One. Remember them all!
That is a great piece! Congratulations!
I did not know that these dies were in the ANA Museum.
The Ohaus has two hooks on the short end of the balance beam. One holds the balance pan at the end of a C-shaped hanger that goes out and down and...
When I was at Coin World or at ANACS, I just used an Ohaus triple beam balance to do S.G.'s. TD
Can't we keep all relevent comments in the same thread?
Well, I bent over backwards trying to be as objective as possible on these, declaring a "No Decision" on the original two-coin submission even...
The price seems right on for the grade. Why did you think it was low?
My great-grandfather worked for one of the mines. My grandfather was an ironworker who came to Lake Linden to build a copper mill. Grandma met him...
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