The real deals are at actual, physical, B&M, estate auction houses that do not specialize in coins/paper money. You may find borderline results...
When people carry money in their pocket folded over, the outward side of the not facing out can get pretty badly worn. As mentioned above, this...
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Put a table cloth over it and call it an end table, right?
It's worth at least $4.50 if it's really made of silver.
Mine is so heavy, that it's in the garage. There's no way it could make it into the house. that reminds me, I need to get some dessicant for it.
The mark across the O on the reverse is indented, not raised. Probably the result of shipping these coins 140,000 at a time.
Checked both the O and the U. On the O, it's a bag mark (actually indented a little) and on the rim by the U, it's just a mark. According to...
With any luck, the mint will crosscheck addresses and eliminate any and all duplicates. If it makes anyone feel better, mine are all listed as...
Sorry for making this short, and I thank everyone for looking. I've checked all the spots people have mentioned here and none of them are raised....
Is that rhetoric as in "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? e.g. "the die crack is in the eye of the holder (as in the person holding the coin...
If you are referring to the dash in "1789 - 1797", then no, that is a bag mark on the coin.
I'll scan and upload my own pics when I get home, but the Colombian 500 Peso coin is bimetal. Here's a link to an image on Don's World Coin...
OK, I sent off most of the missing edge inscription washington dollars I had to be slabbed. I normally don't slab coins, but this is one where if...
I hope they didn't fire anyone over the poor quality coins they have been shipping lately?
I think he meant SGS when he said he was going to send it off for an MS-68 grade.
Or worse, bodybagged because evidence of carpet cleaner was found on the fur!!!
Are you sure it's gold plated, and not just a well burnished planchet?
The way I read it, he had a coffee can full of loose change stolen in addition to the other items, not that they were stored in the coffee can.
Usually I don't, but that's my cue not to bank there.
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