It's a famous part of a famous city. People who wouldn't know Montauk from Montana know about Brooklyn. It's one of the few places in the world...
A jest, my Brooklyn friend.
I dunno. I was going to say machine doubling, but the more I look at the lettering, the less sure I am about that. Better photos would help.
Yankee nickels are notorious for being underweight.
A nickel weighs five grams. And it only costs five cents. :D
The technology of electronic scales is much different now. They use a component whose resistance to current varies directly with the amount of...
As I begin my sixth decade on this planet, I've been reflecting on my life. I've been a mighty lucky man, got a great wife and an occupation that...
I much enjoyed reading the posts on this thread. Quite informative. I'd never heard the theory about the mint lacking the ability to produce good...
I know that we all have different tastes and values, but I simply don't understand why so many people like Heritage. They just seem so big and...
I'm late to this thread, but it's interesting and I wish to add a comment. In capitalism, "differential knowledge" is the key to profit. It...
Spooned, maybe. Or once encased. Or maybe it got trapped in the machinery of a vending machine and spun around until the diameter decreased.
Both are called cartwheels, yes. They are very interesting pieces. Modern steam powered presses were used at the Soho Mint to create the deep and...
I'd be honored to be the steward of those coins for $650.
Anna Willess Williams appears on the 1886 $5 silver certificate (in her guise as the goddess of liberty on the Morgan dollar). So good was...
Good ID job, izotz.
I'm going to say an older, cast counterfeit. Modern fakes are die struck and don't have the pebbly surface this coin has. I wouldn't mind being...
I don't think the government much cared about people hoarding half dollars, which then as now barely circulated. I seem to remember some talk at...
2.5% of 7.4 million is 185,000.
There was never a danger the Germans would invade England in World War I; England's navy combined with that of France ruled the waves no matter...
Some very crafty racketeers of the time even went to the trouble of adding reeding to the centsless nickles, to make them more believable as half...
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