You have to remember how the number of silver coins to be struck was determined back before 1837. The Mint did not have a bullion fund. They...
That is just what the 2 tends to look like that on 1882 coins, the "heavy 2". Same type problem on shield nickels is the reason there are so many...
Probably, just one level. Levels of MS none but it may have Uncirculated and Brilliant uncirculated. EAC used some finer distinctions but for...
Dan Holmes I Early dates 1793 - 1814 Every Sheldon variety and every NC variety (The 1793 NC-5 is shown but was not in the sale, it is unique and...
Why does the Indian Head nickel on the front of that remind me of Boris Karloff.
One problem with the "method" is that it is the same method that has been espoused on online forums for years. For every coin you are interested...
The buyer gets invoiced for the sales tax. Of course as with buyers fees at auctions it could make the buyers only willing to pay a lesser...
6 or 7.
Could I? I did. It was pretty much all there was unless you could find reprints of some of the old books from the early 20th century, and you...
It happens occasionally. Premiums for such sets are typically very modest such as a dollar or two as a novelty. Most collectors aren't that...
I have an agenda?? :banghead: Show of hands. How many think I have an agenda, and how many think Coinwild has an agenda? :D
An "error" in the die is either a die stage or a variety (die cracks, die breakes die scratch, die gouge, die clash, Doubled dies, overdates etc)....
I don't see anything unusual. One of the cents has more pronounced bevels from the rim to the edge but that isn't unusual. Look through a bunch...
No, it is a die CRACK. People often use the two terms interchangeably but they are not the same thing. They mean exactly what they sound like....
Most people do, but technically they are neither one, they're a die stage.
Nah, then it would have a blue glow (Cherenkov radiation ). [IMG]
Typically they do This years Apollo 11 program was debated and passed in 2016. the American Legion debated and passed mid 2017. The 2018...
There would be MORE reason to fake a dime back the than today. A dime was a significant amount of money. And why fake dimes rather than say half...
I see cents worth about 1 cent apiece. You say die cracks? Die cracks aren't worth a premium. You say doubling, I don't see it. You mentioned...
There is nothing in the article that implies that an XRF gun will shoof completely through a coin. And even the manufacturers of the guns will...
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