Only way for a coin to leave the mint with one side blank is to have two planchets enter the coining chamber at the same time. But the blank side...
Years ago they would have. But so many collectors kept complaining that their coins were coming back in bodybags and they weren't getting...
I think the hub may be from the same parent coin, but I think the entire date was removed from the hub. The placement of the date is different....
The first clad commemorative half dollar was the 1986 Statue of Liberty. They were $6.50 pre issue and $7.50 regular price. And that included...
Spacing is bad but they didn't leave out a letter. Of course they spelled UNITED as UNITHD.
Looks like N-5.
Didn't know the stooges did the routine. I learned it from Abbott and Costello.
At this time the lettering in the dies was still being punched into each die by hand. The large 8 and stars (N-1) used rev A, and rev A was used...
Well since no one asked after I dropped the hint, the 1819 is N-7 an R-4+ coin.
Also the nickel planchet won't pass through the feeding tubes on a press set up for cents So the nickel planchet couldn't even get to the coining...
Pivoted hub doubling (forget what the class number is) The point the die is pivoting arouns is located close the rim between 7 and 8:00. The...
NGC has been imaging every coin they certify and posting the image for over 15 years now. PCGS has just recently begun posting more than a few of...
Now read sec 489 no fraudulent intent needed Whoever, within the United States, makes or brings therein from any foreign country, or possesses...
Obv might match, but the rev doesn't. You are right about the rev of the OP coin being 33 N-3, but yours isn't.
Been five weeks since my last post about the Unc Negro League dollar and it still hasn't broken 8,000 In the 5 weeks it has gone from 7,688 to...
If it doesn't get delayed again. It is currently scheduled for 2030. While a couple of recipients of the surcharges have had their payout...
That is true, NGC stopped certifying them in 1998 and they only slabbed 8 of them.
Usually when you see a bank selling coins the coins belong to a local dealer who is using the bank as a selling point with the bank getting a...
Not a worn proof die, a die hubbed with the proof rev hub that was never shipped to San Francisco or polished. It was never used to strike...
The 19 is not the overdate (overdate is a large date, this is a small date) but it is a better variety, in fact the rarest of the 1819's. The 34...
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