Yeah, I think Cook Islands issues actually suffer due to all the shenanigans from places like Bradford Mint that strike "coins" in their name. It...
Nah, you hardly ever see the struck-on-mercury-planchet ones without heat damage. ;)
Looks like a proof to me...?
If it's 24% gold, it's zero percent pure gold. :mad:
Oh, wow, great to see you back! And happy to hear that you're feeling better!
Well, heck, who could blame us? Funny thing, it was my wife who corrected me -- and she's not exactly a Southerner by upbringing. Not sure where...
Bet you'd been rhyming it with "Talladega" like I was, right?
A quick search through eBay completed auction shows similar coins generally getting $40-60, with outliers as low as $30 or as high as $115. At...
Struck through a late stage die cap, maybe? I'm not a collector in this area, so let's wait for the error folks to weigh in with confirmation and...
Not trying to support or refute any sinister readings of "foreign IPs", but we have plenty of regular non-US members, right? People outside of a...
That die chip on the inside of the left wheat ear appears on tons of counterfeits. Maybe it was copied from some genuine coin with the same chip,...
What, did somebody pose with this coin (in its slab) in a Congresscritter's office? While wearing a silly hat?
That opens up a whole new class of doubling! "Left Ear Doubled/Tripled/Quadrupled..."
I'd say "then sell it to him right away", but I assume that (a) you have ethics and (b) you'd prefer to keep the coin shop guy as your friend....
Good on the seller, but the only conceivable reason for making and marketing a coin as ".24 gold" is to trick people into paying as though it were...
I'm not seeing that particular issue on this one. Just all the others indicating a from-the-ground-up fake.
Design sinking into the fields: check. Blobby letters (IN GOD WE): check. Old, familiar die chip on the inside of the left wheat ear: check....
And since I've strained my (freshly dilated) eyes reading the CFR section in question, I'll share it here. (This is dated 31 Dec 1974, so fresh on...
I've posted here before about finding a similar machine at the beach as a very young child. I still have the (worn, damaged) 1892-o dime I got...
Or looking for attention. I think there was a video a few years back about somebody trying to pay for his fast-food order with an AGE.
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