Depends on the year. They have been made of nickel, tombac (a bronze alloy), chrome plated steel, copper nickel, and I believe nickel plated steel.
Acetone. Swish it around for a couple minute in acetone, do the same in a fresh bath of acetone, possibly a third bath, and then a flowing rinse...
Sure they are, but they just have to sell other things instead of Thermonuclear devices. Perfectly OK for the dealer in TND's to sell coins.
Can't tell what the draped bust is, but I believe the liberty cap is a 1796
Why? they would have just been worth face value, just like todays base metal coins.
The 1829 half cent is a little lower in grade than the 1835 it replaced, but I think the visual eye appear is better. I would have made that swap...
1819 is N-3 R-3
Using more pressure helps to a point, but it also cause dies to wear out faster, and can cause damage tot eh presses. And at some point...
Because people are buying the plastic not the coin.
Nothing wrong with ANACS, just that a coin graded at a given grade in an ANACS slab will sell for less than the exact same coin at the same grade...
You can melt any coins except cents and coppernickel 5 cent pieces. The law making them illegal to melt was created about 7 or so years ago....
Yes. The old coins were struck at a rate between 60 and 100 coins per minute so the metal had .5 seconds or so for the metal to flow and fill the...
From the size of the dropped letter I would say it was one of the T's in TRUST. T from LIBERTY would be much larger.
Only 1826 variety that has the point of leaf CENTERED between the S and O
At the moment no S mint rolls. But it is only April so they have 8 months to change their minds.
If you tried to use the same relief as the originals I think they would look horrible as well. With todays high speed presses your only choice is...
And with todays high speed presses they will all come out looking like 1954 S's, mushy with poor strikes and details.
OP coin looks like S-221 the corrected fraction (which like a lot of lower condition examples doesn't really show the corrected fraction well.)...
Something else to consider is that the THEORETICAL or spot value has gone over the face value, but once refining costs and profit requirements of...
Some of the commonwealth countries even use a portrait that isn't used on the Great Britain coins. Does the Church of England still frown on...
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