The Monstrous Fuss is covered much better in Roger Burdette's Renaissance of American Coinage books, and frankly it is rather interesting, at...
That was my impression as well. The coin was mistreated before you ever got it.
Then she looks at you and says "Let me tell you about plans...."
Per the Breen Encyclopedia the weights of some half dozen genuine specimens range from 8.36 to 10.96 for the heaviest one, General range is 8.56...
We don't have an opioid problem, we have a Narcan problem. Now that the police know about the false swearing law, they need to start charging it....
Until the edgeview slabs became commonplace with NGC and PCGS after 2007/2008 you couldn't see any of the edge of the coin and with PCGS slabs...
A few years back when I researched third party shipping insurers they had different rates depending on the shipping method used. For their lowest...
So she claims. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. No evidence, and by her own admission she doesn't know what she had. And there is no...
Apparently the US isn't the only place where people get released on bail when they are already out on bail/skipping bail for previous crimes.
Yes it is huge, but only about half the size of the Smithsonian collection. But the BRM collection appears to be more accessible to collectors,...
The 1872 half dime is just Longacre doubling. Blow up the image and notice how the doubling goes all the way around the lettering in AMERICA.
I suspect a cent placed off-center in an encasement ring pre-strike. During the strike we get part of the encasement ring design, part of the obv...
Not really, but the Mint doesn't always do the packaging either. In any case it isn't considered a mint error and it is too easy to fake by...
Damage, scratches, mishandling etc doesn't reduce survival rate. It reduces the rate in the top condition, but not the overall rate. Pretty much...
OK I told you on another thread that this was either a N-9 or a N-10. That thread didn't have rev pictures, Now I can definitely say it is the...
Careful, you get those other three and you're going to find yourself wanting a date set of Draped busts. And then you hit the 1799 and 1804. :)
Don't look at the overall size of the top of the 8 look at the size of the INSIDE of the upper loop compared to the inside of the bottom loop. On...
Especially with the Sec of the Treasury saying the way to combat the current high inflation is for the government to dump trillions more dollars...
Possibly a combination environmental damage and dryer coin (ED for the color and dryer to remove the reeding)
Email sent, and I would not advise putting your email in posts. There are crawler bots that look to harvest email addresses for spam and phishing...
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