I've explained this before. The rare 1988 is the 1988 with the rev of 89. The main difference is in the designers initials. The problem is that...
Electrolysis doesn't actually remove the oxidation, it removes a surface layer of the metal and that takes the oxidation products along with it....
Maybe not from a legal perspective, but it may cost you many thousands of dollars out of your pocket before the court agrees with you. No it was...
And you sent them a copy of the police report in which the coin was specifically identified by serial number?
You've never spent a coin? Circulating them defaces them too.
You can say it, even if it isn't as in the case of this coin (Lots of people do.). But it probably either won't sell or will sell for much less...
Just wait until next month when all the Monster boxes of ASE's start arriving. If you are smart you don't submit in January, unless you don't...
See last paragraph post #13 ALL cents from 1963 to mid 1982 ARE brass.
The prices are real (as in they are actually asking those prices) but there aren't any sales, I hope.
You would have to ask the writers of the CPG why they are using the wrong term. I don't know if they still do, but at one time the VAM book gave...
Depends on whether you are talking about US coins or say coins from Canada. For US it means a coin that is not a Business strike, and not a...
I don't really know which is less common. i don't collect errors so I don't know which type you would encounter more often.
I don't like it. The think bottoms to the letters in the motto don't seem right, same for the mintmark, and in the first image if you blow it up...
It may possibly be the remains of Longacre doubling. Longacre doubling disappeared on the obverse in 1886, but can sometimes still be found on...
No that is an off center nickel that was then struck between the die and a previously struck coin Frankly though, none of them look completely...
I answered/explained how it occurs on your other thread. Not a worn die issue.
While it may have a very slight MAD, the effect yu are seeing on the rim from 8:00 to 10:00 is the result of a collar clash. At one time the...
OK, who left the proof half dollar soaking in an acid solution?
Because after the chinese started flooding the market about ten years ago with silver dollar sized coins made from an alloy that was magnetic a...
Striking issue. The rims are about the highest relief points of the coin and due to the very slight curvature of the die faces they are also the...
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