Well considering high schools have been doing those plating experiments for decades, and thousands of kinds were doing them in 68, 69, 70, 71.......
Look at the edge. If it was struck on a SBA planchet you will see the same "sandwich" appearance that we see on clad dimes, quarters, halves,...
Oh yes, you would LOVE their first generation holders. Three layer acrylic sheets like capital plastic holders. Coins are put in the holes in...
Not plated, this is a chinese fake.
Should have stopped after the first look.
How dare you make sense.
That just means it received the scratch before the environmental damage discoloration.
Cud is actually a slang term for a specific type of die break, one that includes the edge of the die, A die break that doesn't include the edge...
Hat's wrong.
It was 1829 and they had a leftover unhardened 1827 obv die. Rather than waste an otherwise perfectly good die, they deliberately punched the 29...
In 1868 there was a proposal to make coppernickel ten cent pieces. Probably as a way to redeem fractional currency. We had a 3 cent and five...
The first few rolls couldn't have been bought directly from the mint, at least not as rolls. The mint didn't start selling rolls until Virginia...
A 2021 ASE is hardly going to be a 2020 winner.
The die stages of 1831 N-12. Normally listed as N-12, 12/1, 12/2, and 12/3 there are actually two more stages. N-12 R-1 this is the typically...
CSI was another grading service long ago and they are the ones that produced and marketed those shells to other basement slabbing services.
The odd thing is the side with the torn paper is the side he says is the side that flips up, not the side that is actually glued to the cardboard....
Just the silver commemorative halves, and there have only been two of them, the 1982 Washington half dollar, and the 1993 Bill of Rights half...
That's not a Nobel Peace prize medal it's an unissued medal in the Medicine category. Frankly I wonder how and why it got out. They use the same...
Very slight misaligned die on the obv. Nothing special, if you watch your pocket change closely you can find a lot of them. For a Misaligned die...
Sounds like a month long version of the Academy Awards. Really had nothing to do with the Centennial of the Monroe Doctrine, just an exhibition...
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