These coins are satin finished as are all of the FDM Presidential Dollars. This is nothing unusual. To the best of my knowledge all of the US Mint...
I too love this design and I also love the fact that the relief is sunken into the coin. Not a reverse relief but just sunken in past the surface...
Happy Birthday to Carlton Wiggam co-host of The Coin Show and a long time member here!!! Many happy returns, my friend!!! I am glad to have you...
I once found an 1880's era (I forget the date, truthfully) Indian Head Cent in the 1990s
If I knew this... why would I say??? Truth is that NOBODY knows or can know. It's all speculation
The mint sold out of them early and quite a few people got caught before they had purchased theirs. It created an instant demand for the set and...
yes, but it is my KARMA that ran over my DOGMA, LOL
Interesting Conder! I'm intrigued. How can you tell that? The absence of a seam between the lettering? It appears to me that the image in Coin...
you never know that's the problem, but once it does burst, there's no way of getting it back so in order to come out a winner at some point while...
until it levels out? holding it could (not will, but could) cost you big if it's a bubble and it bursts
coin number 2 has rim damage, so it may only grade genuine, the top one should grade, I see no reason to think it's been cleaned, or otherwise...
not only did I personally LOVE Doug's segment, but I learned a LOT!!! Thanks again for being our featured guest, Doug! Finding more guests like...
The Coin Show Episode #9 is now available on the player, iTunes, and our website at coinshowradio.com!!! A HUGE thanks to Doug Prather for...
Point made and taken, Doug. There are technical uses for the "industry specific" jargon used in business. When used in the context of that...
it is also missing the diagnostic weak Ns on the reverse which, fortunately for us, makes it easy to debunk as a counterfeit
I love you Doug, did you know that??? LOL And I mean that with all sincerity. I love that we can go back and forth as we have (for years now) and...
Doug, I have (and you know I have) read those two books as well as several others. I read a lot. In fact, I own more books on coins than on any...
unfortunately, Doug, and this is not to say that I disagree in any way, but the TPGs are not allowed to invent definitions of words that already...
I'll take that to be in reference to me, Doug?
Most key dates are at a value far beyond their bullion melt value and so the changes in prices of metals have very little to do with the value of...
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