The same way you grade any coin, by the amount of wear it has received, and if there is no wear you figure in strike quality and contact marks....
ONE of the spiked chin varieties, there are four of them C-5,6,7, and 8. (there is also C-3 which is C-5 before the obv struck the bolt) The one...
yes NGC did have a transparent smoke gray box for awhile and some coins were shipped out in those boxes. But PCGS had one as well, but those...
Might be violating ebay policy, I'm not sure about that, but he is in compliance with the HPA, assuming you get a piece like the one in the...
Dies with the same design from different years will often show similar die cracks in the same locations simply because the stresses from striking...
The mint had nearly four years in which to acquire copper planchets, they would not have rushed to do so in 2005. And your coin shows plating...
And gold plating of coins post mint is not uncommon.
That's were I got the information I posted.
Not sure what the first two things are (possibly VERY crude dies), the coin looks like a contemporary counterfeit. It MAY have been made from the...
This makes extra sense since the end was outside the coining chamber, it has a Full Head.
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Thickness of the initial blank. Specific gravity of 900 fine coin silver is 10.34 grams per cubic centimeter. A 12.5 gram blank 3.06 cm in...
Series 2009 star note produced for the Cleveland Federal Reserve, they made 3,200,000 of them at the Dc facility in April 2011 and they are...
The Freemason stamp was added after it left the mint, and the silver color probably indicates a post mint nickel or silver plating. If it is...
They have to make them BECAUSE they are just sitting around in jars. Especially cents. Todays coins have such low purchasing power that it is...
Yep it is a quarter, no question. I called it a quarter in another thread that only showed the obv, now that the reverse is shown it is...
Now I need a black one. Another one I want is one of the transparent smoke gray ones they used internally for transporting them. I've seen one...
Well that does give us one important piece of information. I have seen these popping up from time to time for years. Knew what they were, but...
If the depicted relationships are accurate, it is a significant rotated die error. These are not overly valuable though so probably less than $15...
Yep, that's what it is a 1971 Philadelphia half dollar.
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