You have a nice grease filled error. Grease filled errors are common and it is quite possible that each will be a little different. As a general...
I'm with JeffB, if it is real it is NOT a desirable coin and would result in a decrease in the value. The only way this would command a premium...
Bad photos of common coins taken at weird angles. I'd take them at $10 each WITH return privilege.
You also have to consider that in the 19th century, for the most part collectors paid no attention to mintmarks. Most of the collectors were...
I'd take the grade set. It is a LOT easier to find multiple buyers for this coin in lower grades that to find the one collector with deep pockets...
It IS possible to get your name on the label, but they won't do it simply because you ask for it.
I have some suspicions. He references a 2014 Heritage auction, references a PCGS certificate verification for a DIFFERENT certified coin (That...
NP = National Park A couple states don't have national parks so they also allowed historic sites.
Looks acid etched, I also suspect it had its edge ground down as well before the acid soak. The reason is because the edge is uneven and the coin...
Back when the 1995 was truck they were using presses that struck between 60 and 100 coins per minute, about 1 coin per second. That gave the...
Not stupid, just uninformed. Now you have learned something new, which is one of the reasons these forums exist, to teach and pass on...
I believe most if not all of them were multi-millionaires before PCGS was founded. 1986 And Collectors Universe was most likely created to BE...
That far out of tolerance I would avoid it like the plague. At least until they could give me a weight to one, preferably two decimal places.
Almost certainly Not legal.
The other things you mentioned are correct, but the mint has never put blank planchets into the mint sets to "fill an empty slot".
Very simple, they are manufactured in China where out anti-counterfeiting laws do not apply. China has their own anti-counterfeiting laws, but...
I'm afraid I am not the proper person to ask about this. I dislike the concept the slabbed coins, I don't like gold, and I do not believe buying...
There is no exception in the Hobby Protection Act that waives compliance if it is an NGC slab. :)
Probably, wrong electromagnetic signature and way too heavy to be a cent as far as the machine is concerned.
Sounds like a novelty counterstamp.
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