If you must get stuff graded, I'd say anything where the cost of grading was more than 10% of the value of the coin is money wasted on grading.
FDC does not mean UNC as such, it means 'Perfect' Flower of the Coin. Better than just UNC. Perfectly struck and free from bagmarks, from any...
The picture shows a wolf at the throat of the German people, and the designer may have had some sympathy with popular feeling about war...
A good choice in my opinion.
Looks OK to me. The paper was very thin, typical of the period.
I'm a little puzzled where all the predictors of doom with a Craigslist deal are on this thread. The amounts involved are similar but no one has...
OP, Roman Moneyers 1, jokes and old cars, 14. It's a sad indictment of the frivolity of the young (second childhoods count as 'young' ) I do...
Just wondering why it says Mexico on it. I could understand the coin being struck in Mexico, but a little mint mark would have done the job.
I like the idea of winding up the fraudsters. I have a souvenir in the form of a bank cheque for a couple of thousand pounds sent to me from...
You called it a 'half penny', not a half cent, so I assumed it was a British coin. Hard to tell what it was from the pictures. That would be in...
It's only going to be a dollar or two but you might as well take it out of that plastic cover.It just a mass of reflections as it is.
He called it Napoleon because it was his first consul. I called it Nappy because it smelled of piss. It has just occurred to me that that won't...
Or, to be realistic, about a month till it broke down. :-)
When I lived in Washington, near Tacoma, there was a series of Craig's List transactions that went bad and all were by different people. There...
Ah, that's what he would say, now that the dastardly plot has been exposed to the forensic scrutiny of some of the brightest minds in the Nervous...
My dad worked at the Mint and he had a Ford Consul So any list should incude af's dad. [IMG]
No real cash value but over 200 years of history.
sniped.
Off hand I'd say it was a George III halfpenny,but both pictures are 'heads'.
You do realize this is the "Error Forum"? :) Each to his own; I happen to find coins like this fascinating, as they help me understand the...
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