I can remember as a kid seeing these made from large buttons.
"Googles plan"? What exactly does that mean?
Yeah, the urge to fill an empty hole is powerful. It's one of the reasons I stopped doing sets.
That's a mint error. Very valuable, according to YouTube.
Kudos to the OP. This is an excellent question for a coin forum, and I think you'll get some interesting answers . . . including a lot of the "it...
Thank goodness for that!
What politics-related posts are you talking about?
Meow thinks you're just jealous, Sully. [IMG]
There have been only two impeachments in the entire history of the United States, so I'm really not seeing an actionable pattern there.
The small amount of toning doesn't take away from the visual appeal, value or desirability of those coins — in fact, the toning junkies out there...
If the US mint would just stop using a lathe, these things wouldn't happen.
The thing I noticed instantly was no bag marks. They may exist, but I've ever seen a Morgan without bag marks.
Great story. Thread Of The Year!
Was kinda thinking this too. Would be a valuable lesson, and the buyer would probably never make such a dumb mistake again.
Good point, Bob. Time is the investor's best friend. The majority of my most valuable coins are ones I purchased over 30 years ago — frankly,...
Few of us here could sell our collections at a net profit, so no, coin collecting isn’t a particularly good investment. Coin collecting is mostly...
True. The climate where one lives, and the micro-climate where one stores his or her coins, are key factors.
I don't want to look at my coins that closely. :D
Yeah, that definitely looks like it's on the 18 mm mark.
Those photos make one of the best arguments against mylar 2x2s I think I've seen. Several years ago I began transitioning all of my raw coins...
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