Time and quality... With a stock photo, WYSIWYG. A collector's photo might not quite be what the editor wanted. Try it out... go to DALL-E or...
More specifically that is the exact photo. And it's a cheap source of royalty-free photos. A one-month subscription for up to 5 photos is $25.
Let's remind folks that clad coins are 75% copper/25% nickel bonded to a 100% copper core. Nickels are not clad but are entirely made from the...
It's a stock photo... it wasn't shot for the catalog. https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-old-silver-coins-bag-sack-isolated-white-image51392128
Oriented as to time and space!
First glance, VF/XF with some circ cameo. It's likely a nice coin at $100 or $125. $400 is ambitious.
Cufflinks
Nothing says poor workmanship like wrinkles in the duct tape.
I did a quick and dirty Google search, everything seems to lead back to older versions and the same Facebook page. I did see one dealer...
Cool beans. That's why you never say never.
I've bought stuff from a dealer who said "oh I need to take it down from eBay" and then discovered that the free Internet provided by the venue...
There are two terms used, IDB and Die Chip. The boundaries aren't all that clear. A die chip is a type of IDB, but a minimal one. The die chip...
So what have you learned? * Doubled Die not Double Die. The actual DIE has the doubling, the other is a nonsense term * They do exist. Like...
Today, there are two screeings... at mint before dropping into the balistic nylon bags and at the contracted coin terminals when they are counted...
A lot of them were smuggled out of the mint - in San Francisco they used the oil pan of the forklift.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
There certainly seems to be more than the usual # of die chips with the new designs. They're still not really worth anything, but it will give the...
Same ? same answers on CCF.
The chart is clearly wrong in several instances... such as the Seated Half dollar from 1873 through the Barber to 1915...
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