Other than the stuff on the rev it is a VERY nice example of "ghosting".
A large part of that is the fact that with the super high mintages of all the recent coinage, nearly 60 years since the end of silver, and with...
It is the bisected date and that die was only used by the CSA.
Or PCGS, they got so fed up getting called out for slabbing proofs as business strikes and business strikes as proofs that they made a decision...
The problem with something like this is you are comparing the coins to ONE known counterfeit. If say there were a dozen people making...
Why? Well more than likely large cents were counterstamped indiscriminately. But as collecting took hold and damaged large cents were redeemed...
The 1794 to 1803 dollars didn't do well because they were overvalued and were more profitably exported. Spanish 8 reales were also in circulation,...
One correction. on thr lare dates I said John Grellman, that should be Bob Grellman.
Which isn't surprising as much of the book was written in the mid 1950's. At the time he wrote it they were rare. By the time the book was...
Medals of the US Mint: The First Century 1792 - 1892 by R. W. Julian There are two copies on Abebooks right now. One for $80 and one for $95.
Those have been "demonitized" they were only valid for a set period and then after exchange day they ceased to be valid. Of course they were...
Probably until the early 1970s most collectors probably had no good idea exactly how coins were made and what the processes were. Collecting...
Please ask your best friends dad to explain exactly how this striking error occurs. I would be interested to hear his explanation.
The first edition MegaRedbook is probably the best single volume but if you really want to go in depth Half cents Half Cent Die States/1793-1857...
The Breen encyclopedia is a very good GENERAL reference on the entire US coinage series all in one book. There is no other single book that...
If you like it and want to collect them, then yes they are good to collect. If you are wanting to know if they are a good investment for the...
No they weren't demonetized, but since they had been called in in the gold recall, for many years they government considered them illegal to own....
Nope, even with cost of materials at zero, cost of manufacturing is 1.1 cents apiece. So they need a material that costs less than ZERO. 400 in...
On PCGS usually yes, because PCGS almost never has pictures of the coin. On NGC it varies. If the coin was slabbed more than about 11 years ago...
Not sure what you mean by registry number lookup, but if you mean the slab serial number verification, the counterfeiters have been using real...
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