Often at the end of the year the mint will be striking both the current and the coming years coins at the same time (so as to have a stockpile...
The uneven lettering is because the die was hand created with the individual letters being punched into the working die by hand.
Some think the Jefferson heads were patterns or demonstration pieces by Harper when he was trying to get the contract for producing cents for the...
Not a bad coin, but I think when you get it in hand you will find the entire surface is finely porous.
A lot of wishful thinking. As micbraun says the large size bust dime was 18.8 mm, the modern quarter (smaller than the bust quartr of that era)...
The missing AW is the result of excessive die polishing and could therefore occur on any year and/or mint. The initials are incuse on the coin...
The machines are probably around not to far from you. The list of locations in Spain for the rolling machines is 9 pages long.
If acetone or Xylol don't work you could try isopropanol, or methylethylketone (MEK) both a safe to use on coins. Each of these works as a...
Believe it or not a lot of dealer do. Some don't carry it because ot the expense, some don't because of the bookkeeping hassle. And some don't...
No in this case it's the label that makes it unique, not the coin. The coin is available, the label isn't.
The article mentioned a change in their MO but only seemed to imply that change was from robbing dealers on theri way home to also robbing...
The record for late delivery of mail is somewhere around 100 years for letters or postcards. every now or then a story will popup about a letter...
There are at least two websites, pennypresses.net and Pennycollector.com that list locations where the machines are all over the world. There are...
There isn't, which is why it took over 6.5 hours to sell 50,000 sets. An item with high interest sells out 50,000 in a matter of a few minutes.
Yes it could possible be the real thing, but there are so many fake ASE's that have a 180 degree rotation that as soon as you see that rotation...
The question then is what would it be? ASE's with a 180 rotation tend to be a significant marker for recent Chinese counterfeits. Yes, for the...
Bingo. The blank aluminum ring is placed in the collar on the anvil die and the coin is supposed to be placed in the hole in the ring. The dies...
They have been sold on several occasions, the 1968 S proof dies were sold off in large lots as scrap metal in a GSA sale. Some of them were then...
But both overdate dies were created in Philadelphia. Philadelphia made all of the dies for themselves and all the branch mints until the Denver...
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