What they missed was that the coins were counterfeits. This fake has been known for a few years now. I believe it was first publicized in the...
True because by the time it gets to the grader it has been removed from whatever it was in when it arrived and is just in a flip.
There are a fair number of repunched dates and other errors, many of them probably unlisted. There would have been around 1,000 die pairs for the...
No they didn't scrap them completely and I think they still use them internally. And you don't have to track the numbers down for your...
Probably not when you consider that when he got them they could probably have been had for $300 maybe less. And today he might break even, if you...
I have tried to read it on three occasions but I have never managed to get more than halfway through it. Sorry but to me it is just not well...
Same thing they did to the Hunts back in 1980.
Dishonest.
17 N-10 R-1
Correct, and the coin that is stuck to the die is called a die cap. Either die can become capped but in the case of the anvil die the cap doesn't...
I'd have to see a better/closer picture of that ANACS coin. Even blowing up the image it doesn't really look like one.
The problem with searching these sets for quality Ikes, is that people HAVE been searching these sets for quality Ikes for about 48 years. The...
No one did which is why they finally got rid of them. And Pottydollar showed the generation before yours. Yours is from the 2002 - 2005 period....
Shady characters yes, unethical true, crooks no. They can't be crooks because they aren't doing anything illegal.
The 1816 Is a N-9 R-3. The 17 is N-8 R-2, early stage before the "mouse" on top of the head starts forming.
Unlikely to have a grease fill in a shallow detail area like that. A shallow area in the design is a HIGH spot in the design in the die. Grease...
The $50 gold slugs from the California gold rush era were 85.49 grams about 2.75 troy oz. There were other large older world coins but I can't...
I'm not sure but I believe that image is of them moving the old No 1 press from the CC Mint. I don't know if this was them moving out of Carson...
I like these too. I've been slowly building a date set, not going to get into the mint mark varieties, I've currently got 19 or 20 of them....
Well a cent could get fed in between a pair of Ike dollar dies in a dollar collar theoretically on its own. An Ike struck with cent die on the...
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