Here is a diagram from an old Charlton's (ignore prices). With no trace of a connection between the tail and the loop of the 9, your coin appears...
It's the 9 in the date that governs varieties, for the most part, and unfortunately that's the one digit which is obscured. Kindly try another...
There is also a possibility that the coin was treated with some kind of acid, just for fun. Not sure what the results would be, but definitely...
This website shows a list of 140+ foreign coins struck at US mints through 1963; unfortunately, it does not list weights and diameters:...
The square of the diameter divided by two, which most folks would forget to do; otherwise you introduce a 4X error.
It's the square of the radius, not the diameter...
Some of the Filipino dimes struck 1937-1945 came from the Denver mint. They weighed 2.000 grams and were 75% silver, diameter 16.7 mm. See Krause.
Except that having lived a year in Oregon, I can assure you that a basement in Washington is damp all the time, affecting cardboard albums and 2x2's.
Yep, and when the crunch comes, you can light your cigar with the bill, and the eagle might buy you 3 days' worth of food, plus 3 more cigars...:D
For WestTexasBound - I saw this quote today, from a blogger named Fred Read: "The rot [in America] goes beyond the academic. The whole epicene...
Pull out a handful of coins, and list the dates for us. Maybe 25 pennies, nickels, and dimes selected at random. We can deal with that.
I agree completely -- for fancy serial numbers. This one ain't.
If you have wheat cents, you can get some premium, provided you can sell them in your home town and NOT have to ship them, which eats up all the...
Tell you what -- I'll start watching my $1 bills, will ship to you, and we'll split the profits 50-50. I got a hundred $1's at the bank this...
Take the money and run, sez Steve Miller.
I don't foresee anything near Doomsday in this rich country, whether the dollar collapses or not. I do see a significant reduction in most folks'...
The top 6 coins are various Saudi Arabia, with one duplication. The bottom 2 coins (both holed) are unknown country and catalog value; I don’t...
No premium.
And, as few members seem to "get," stacking is nothing more than trying to preserve the purchasing power of paper dollars by converting them into...
There is one thing I never really understood; the ratio (in struck coins) seldom reached 16:1 exactly. For instance, circa 1900: 1 double eagle...
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