No actually they don't have to.
Looks like it has been exposed to high heat and a bubble between the clad layers has expanded. Then it was cleaned to remove the oxidation.
If the seller is in China, yes because our laws don't apply in other countries. If the seller is in the US then no it isn't legal. And if it is...
They may not. Many basement slabbers are merely people slabbing their own coins.
I don't think it would rank that high.
That was because the spaces had a bit of water soluble adhesive in them. The moistened dime activated the glue which then reset and helped keep...
The reverse appears to have a layer of "stuff" on it obscuring the surfaces. I'd say the coin is genuine but since the surfaces or obscured they...
The 1834 is easy, there are only 7 varieties and you can pretty much ignore N-7 (proof only and only 8 known) There are 2 varieties with large...
Agreed, the whole point of having the clad halves was to provide a coin low enough in price that young numismatists could afford them. The first...
Right here, updated monthly ( not sure what day of the month) Select circulating coins and the year. They don't have 2022 figures up yet,...
Not sure why everyone says it has been reprocessed. It doesn't appear reprocessed to me. Hard to reprocess and replate without plating the edge...
Interesting factoid, there are two known MS 1973 S coppernickel clad Ike dollars that have been found in those blue OGP envelopes.
You don't? There have been plenty of people that have come here (and on other forums) asking about a coin, been given good explanations, argued...
Why would that have caused rejection? At the time the colonists still were loyal to england and many if not most still considered themselves...
Thre are several rarity scales. The R1 to R8 Sheldon Scale is the one typically used for Large cents and half cents, Bust halves, frankly most...
So one is an FS-301 and the other one isn't. Only way to know which is correct is to look in the book and see which one they called FS-301.
Gone before I could see the listing, but yes the obv is a low relief type of 1922.
I believe international trade accounts tended to be settled more with bars than coins because the bars tended to be 999 fine, and there was less...
I'd say recent. It has those puffy marshmallow date figures that you see on a lot of recent fakes.
There are five different varieties (five different dies) that ARE overdates but four of them are hard to tell.
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