Looks more like planchet impurities than lamination.
One reason the Dark Ages were so dark was a chronic shortage of money. The collapse of the Roman empire meant places without native deposits of...
I already established FIFO as my accounting basis for metals. Ouch. Some of my earliest silver purchases were for a few dollars an ounce. If you...
Genuine remainder sheet. As the poster above says, many exist.
1909 V.D.B. cents are relatively common in all grades. They were actively saved at the time of minting, and many, many unc. rolls survived. 1909 S...
Oh good. This thread needed a teabagger punch line.
America doesn't have Treasure Trove rules.
Everybody has pockets of exceptional knowledge because of their individual occupations and interests. I can tell you the composition and weight...
For silver investment purposes, I finally settled on quality 10oz and 100oz bars and government 1oz rounds. Mexico and Canada make nice ones, and...
Anarchist. :p
Notes above $100, and "small head" notes $5 and above, are "actively withdrawn". That means a bank is supposed to separate all such notes and...
1950E notes were issued in relatively small numbers and for a short time (using up the remaining capacity of the old wet-sheet printing presses)....
The US will not introduce bills above $100 denomination for the same reason such notes were withdrawn in 1969 - they are seen as facilitating...
He complied with the law. Some people feel it necessary to do that. He'll probably wind up keeping the find, since it has no historical...
Rehabilitating currency is a dark art. The skills it takes to be a competent restorer of archival documents also make one able to cause a...
Oldest coin - 1909 vdb cent. Oldest note - 1934 lime green seal $20 FRN, estimated issue date 1936.
Yep, I agree. Athenian tetradracham reverse and Alexandrian obverse from some other coin.
Assuming it's dateless, I'd say it's worth at least $100. Such errors are much common on halves than on pennies and nickles.
Looks like a fake Athenian tetradracham.
Isn't it nice that all of us our free to collect what we will? If you don't like coins made by the mint in questionable circumstances, you don't...
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