Pictures?
Some vending machines in Canada long ago used to drag a sharp pointed probe across the coin check to make sure it wasn't a washer. If the...
I think the scratch looks a little heavy for a staple scratch, The top of the obv looks like it has had some buffing done to it.
Walking Liberty half, blow up the second picture and it becomes fairly obvious. And the MS pieces are two Oaks and a pine tree.
There was a major coin shortage at the time and production was being ramped up VERY quickly, the ramping up of quality control happened at a...
Probably feed finger damage to the die.
The small size S seen on the 1872 S fake half was not used on seated halves until 1875.
Actually it is, or at least the result of the diffraction of light through a layer of material deposited on the coin through a reaction of the...
No, in 2010 they went back to copper plated zinc on the proofs.
They bill the estate.
To be fair, in the title he did also ask how he could tell if it was an error. The only real way to answer that is "Learn as much as you can...
This is a Conder token cataloged to Middlesex D&H 1050. It is similar to the piece designed by Hancock as a proposal for a contract coinage for...
Haven't decided yet.
The TPG's are not perfect or omnipotent they make mistakes sometimes. If they always got it right and never made a mistake there would be no such...
Thank you for showing the picture of it on a scale, that explains things. The diameter is smaller because the rims have been beaten as other have...
OK, You didn't say it, you were quoting from an article that was giving bad information.
40% silver halves tolerance range is 11.1 to 11.9 grams
Yes. Foldover strikes are bent. Off-center strikes are sometimes bent. Saddle strikes are bent. If you mean a normally struck coin coming from...
1 and 3 agreed, number 2 might be a small strike through. Can't tell if it is raised or incuse.
Yes, it's call a fantasy jewelry piece. The jewelry trade may have a special term for them, but you would have to ask in a jewelry forum. It is...
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