Unlike the business strikes the proofs get the edge lettering at the same time athey are struck using a segmented collar. The raised line s on...
The 1794 is S-26 Die stage III, R-2 The die gouge through the left side of O in OF and the die crack through the S nails it as S-26, the die...
I seriously doubt it would be ANY kind of pattern. Much more likely a souvenir of the fair. Don't have any information but I would wonder if...
I can say the same thing about "pop tops".
Poor quality fake. (and I would say NOT contemporary) Obverse lettering and date font are completely wrong, dentil are a joke. LIBERTY appears to...
And to ask any price that he wants. Asking a ridiculously high price is perfectly legal.
A picture of the other side would probably help as well.
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Because they are struck on previously struck dimes. A cent planchet wouldn't fit in a dime collar or through the feed equipment for the dime...
There is no known 1873 S no arrows dime. Do you have pictures? The change happened in early Feb. I don't show that any 1873 S no arrows dimes...
The 1856 and the 1858 large letters both have the AM joined, but on the 1856 the center bar of the E's have large serifs that are joined to the...
You buy it from the mint as soon as it goes on sale and have it shipped directly to the TPG with that days postmark. Standing at the end of the...
They probably do. I know they did at one time because when they first started waffling there were complete sets of waffled coins being sold and...
Well there was a Federal government before the Constitution, the government under the Articles of Confederation was still the Federal Government.
It wasn't a US mint, the Fugios were struck under contract by James Jarvis. He had purchased the Company for Coin Coppers in New Haven CT. The...
The Series and coin numbers was something that PCGS uses/used internally Each coin series had a number starting with the Liberty cap left half...
I'd buy it! But not at that price. Move the decimal point about two places to the left.
Another good way to tell 60 and 61 apart is the outer berries between D and S. S-60 has two berries and the leaf does not point at either of...
No it isn't, the same style was used in 1953 as well. It IS different from the 3's used before 1943, and its dropping tail is different than the...
I'm sure they use gloves when packaging proofs, but I suspect they DON'T for the mint sets (after all these are "just" business strikes) and I...
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