Too high a price for such a small press. 50 ton is large enough to do a cent or dime sized "coin" in copper or copper nickel, probably something...
Of course that is NOT what he was describing. He kept talking about collector to collector trading.
I should have too.
3 appears to be altered.
Nice, appears to have a fingerprint below the eagle.
Nice early copper does that to you.
Nope the facebook image shows it to be a plated cent.
I'd hold it intact until I decided to part with it, then sell it intact to the dreamers with visions of undiscovered treasure in their eyes for a...
To knowingly facilitating someone in selling a counterfeit (which is what ebay is often doing) is also illegal under the HPA.
If it is they'll let us know........on the 15th. :)
I never read Coin World for the ads. The whole time I've been collecting I've only purchased from an ad in a publication a couple of times.
Wow, 5 pages to answer a simple question. YES! :) Is it a problem? That's a whole other question.
You can if you are an advanced collector and just click-click WON'T find you what you are looking for, at least not anytime soon. So you have to...
Yes, but he probably isn't collecting. He's roll hunting to sell and make a fortune from pocket change. :)
Scotch would leave residues, if you are going to use ethyl alcohol go with Everclear 190.
Glad I could help, even if the help was for someone else over a year ago. :)
Definitely an underweight planchet, I see no evidence of damage or corrosion. One thin I do not is that the strike appears to be full at...
Roller marks and linear plating blister are related. It is the roller marks that provide the nucleus sites for the linear plating blisters to form.
You will also note that on the early "scrubs" he concentrated on the fields and avoided the details, probably so that when he moved to the very...
Actually in the tens of tons, 40 tons for the cent and dime, 75 tons for the quarter, small dollar and possibly half dollar, the five cent...
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