Number one looks added . . . number two looks chased. Edit: . . . I've reconsidered coin number two . . . I see die lines continuing through the...
I didn't focus on this before, but see it now . . . the flow lines are not radial, and are re-directed slightly toward the areas of the die which...
What we see in your images is the striated surface of the planchet struck up incompletely where the planchet thickness was less than normal....
Nope . . . planchet stock was thinner and striated in this area before strike. Possibly a tapered planchet from uneven calendaring of the coil...
Believe what you want to . . . I know what makes perfect sense to me.
You're in the wrong neighborhood . . . Etsy is a different website.
1870-S Half Dime, if only I could find one for sale.
Photos please . . .
Yes . . . The USD. You can get lots of those right now if you have stuff to sell that others want.
The seller should have to pay nearly 25x face for 90% (APMEX is 24.7x right now, and RARCOA is 25.1x). He's only willing to give roughly half...
The unemployment numbers this month were simply awful. Economists were expecting nearly one million jobs to be created in the month of April . ....
You're right about central banks historically not advertising their purchases, but it could be very different this time around. Countries looking...
Yeah, too bad that your time was wasted, but it means you have more money to spend on a nicer coin when your refund comes back at you.
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