so if a grand slam is 100 x purchase price what would it be if a coin sold for 400,000 x purchase price?
I have met Charmy, and, in fact, got to observe her at The Worlds Fair of Money in Boston 2010. I was one of the volunteers from the BNS that did...
No scale needed. the Silver nickels have a large mintmark above monticello on the reverse, the non-silver don't.
It would come in handy the next time you are invited to a wedding and can"t decide to order the chichen or the beef!
that is not a mint error. that is a gas bubble between the zinc and the copper plating. it is very common and has no extra value.
Rick You put your contacts in backwards!
I think its PMD
I have a coin from the John Quincy Adams collection. I will have to dig it out and take pics. It was not bought for the the value of the coin but...
coin collecting was common in the United Stated long before the 1880's. Our sixth President, John Quincy Adams was a collector of ancient coins....
just speculation here but I believe that 1948 is the year that the formalization of East Germany was finalized after WWI. This would be a 30 year...
although the pics are blurry I can make out enough in the photo of the word "OF" to tell you it is machine doubling. Richard
actually it is a minor straight clip. If you look at the rim opposite the clip you will see that it looks slightly wider. that is from the copper...
I have to disagree, Being a 1985 Cent the layer of copper over zinc is so thin that you couldn't possibly tool it like that without exposing the...
in this type post it really helps to know the date and mintmark of the coin. This could be a well known doubled die but without the date and...
there's a comment there but i'm trying to be a kinder, friendlier ziggy!
you refer to it as a 1982 DDR but you haven't shown us the reverse yet.
although the image is blurry it appears to be a large date zinc. The 82 DDR is on the small date zinc. The reverse would look like my avatar if it...
Getting a TPG to put a coin in a slab is not the only way to protect it from harm.....
batting .500 is great if this were baseball, but it isn't. If you check the many threads where I have posted about errors I have been a whole lot...
If you read the post about his scale he states it is only accurate to the nearest gram which means this coin could weigh as little as 2.51 grams....
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