vandalism.
Stage A before die clash, stage B after die clash but before die polishing, Stage C after die polishing that removes the leg. Three leg is a die...
Different group mindset, they don't see anything wrong with cleaning because they don't have the coin collector/numismatist mindset of keeping...
Nice coin, he only cleaned $500 to $1K off of it. Maybe someone should let him, and the group, know that.
The reason the SEGS slab came back as non valid could be because a couple years ago SEGS reorganized as an LLC and took the position that that...
So far Eliasberg is the only person as far as I know to have had a complete set of Saint-Gaudens double eagles (Yes he had the 33) The other two...
That clearly is the same company, but a variety I haven't seen, and no I have no further information about the company..
If it is a 1974 P I would say not it isn't, If it is a D there is a very small chance that it could be. Son Francisco sent their rejected proof...
In the op it looks like a seam at the top of the D side just inside the rim. The image is taken at a slight angle so you can't see inside the rim...
It IS the overdate, Key feature is actually on the rev. The 1826/5 (N-8) is the ONLY variety of 1826 that has the point of leaf CENTERED between...
Weight is irrelevant. The weight of the ENTIRE plating would be in the neighborhood of .05 grams which is less than half of the tolerance allowance.
From the size it looked to me like a half shekel not a shekel. He did over pay. And if the insurance company compensated the original owner,...
I think you made a good deal. Don't know about turning it into a pocket piece though.
And then continued after the War ended thru the 1830's.
They didn't. The last year the US Mint struck coins for another country was 1984 (except for the 1000 Kr Iceland coin for the 500th anniversary...
Same way, cast the zinc into ingots, roll the ingots out into strip, punch blanks for the strip, upset the edges of the blanks. Then barrel plate...
Eliminating the cent would have no effect on inflation because half the time it would also round down cancelling out the times it rounded up. The...
Yep, but if you are talking about it and not seeing it and one calls it a rose, one calls it a daisy and one calls it stinkweed there's going to...
Can't find any. The most recent person I know of that has had encased coins made is Steve Ellsworth of Butternut coins. He had encased large...
I got it pretty close. In post 47 I said 1.5% and .04 mm. And you could probably only really measure it on the blank not the final struck coin....
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