Do you mean "hot" as in good profit potential, or "hot" as in slang for stolen goods? If the former, it's terrible advice. If the latter, it's...
The listing title alone says it's not a French pattern. I mean, a French pattern made in Nuremberg? LOL! It's cool to see though, I personally...
The doubling is common mechanical doubling, doesn't add any value to a collector familiar with it. These coins circulated for long enough where...
There is no actual date on the coin, but all the reference materials date them as 1917. I believe that auction is one of those where stuff either...
The 1944 and 1945 coins were made of steel, but plated with chrome. The coin in question does appear to be missing the chrome plating, but this is...
It will work for silver, gold, platinum, palladium, any precious metal really. They are all non-magnetic, but highly electromagnetic which...
Depends how "rare" you want to go. Some people would say the regular 1858 large cent is rare, for others it may take something like a brass 1859...
A brockage is a coin struck by another coin, or part of another coin, which was previously struck. It would not be uniface.
I agree the coin looks good and genuine. Not sure where you got those prices though. The 1917 50 cent coins like this are worth $150 to $200 in...
Try the magnetic slide, it's very reliable for determining precious metals from base.
What's the third one struck over? Hard to make out the host details. =) I've wondered about the die cracks, they seem to plague the Szechuan 100...
It's an 1800 dated kreuzer, mint mark appears to be C, the G has that extra bit going inside the loop. Billon is basically copper that is...
Many 1972 cents I see have part of the rim thicker on one side. It doesn't increase the value.
Looks like maybe a bur, extra metal left on one side from when the planchets were punched that is then struck onto the rim.
That's an interesting way of putting it. Funny how the same applies for slabs of meat as does for slabs with coins. =)
They would make the same money by slabbing it with a details grade.
I always thought MS 60/61 was just plain uncirculated. If an MS-60 coin is "select" UNC, what is normal UNC? An AU-58? Lol So far his thread is...
Is that a Maundy issue? They often have toning like this, probably due to the presentation case they came in.
There are few, if any, Canadian large cents for any given date that have been slabbed in lower grades by any of these TGP's. (I assume you are...
Which part is supposed to be a clash? I don't see it.
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