This is what a 7 on an 1807 Half Cent looks like. I'm not seeing it. [img] (PCGS Image)
Polishing or damaging a rare coin will decrease it's value probably less than the value of less rare coins. This damaged 1909 SVDB would have...
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The best I can do with adjustments leads me to think it's a Small 6 1806. [ATTACH] [img] (Coinfacts image)
But you're quite happy with others who aren't in on the game posting their own uninformed rubbish guesses.
Not any more. You can barely give those things away any more.
Barely Fine, but the price is fairly good, given the condition (green).
Commemorative medal.
More out of the box (uneducated) thinking here but could the doubled X in the center be related to the number 20 (XX)? I don't know of any other...
Here's another [img] The X design is specific in each case which may be a clue to what it represents. There are two pairs of long parallel...
How did the ancients make blanks that were (more or less) uniform in weight? Personally I think they made the molten metal into a strip or thin...
That was included in my link above, "Making a Mint." Unanswered is the question, how did the ancients make blanks that were (more or less)...
in 1907 [MEDIA] in 1940 [MEDIA] today [MEDIA] medieval era (except they haven't figured how to make uniform blanks) [MEDIA] Rome 1946 hand...
I'm not disputing that the rim is part of the die but, that being the case, how can a misaligned die make a strong strike on the planchet without...
I quit in 1979 when everything I had up to that date got stolen when my house was broken into.
Rather than hijack a current thread i'll ask this here. Is the squared rim on a proof coin produced mainly by the die, the collar or the...
I'm not interested in luster if the coin just has natural age toning - brown for copper and shades of grey for silver. That kind of toning I can,...
Given this statement by PCGS in the above link: "We can assure every collector and dealer around the world that PCGS has always been, and always...
I hope Lincoln has his shots, that coin has the measles.
Short answer - NO.
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