I don't feel a thick or thin planchet coin really has any premium until it is .3 to .4 grams outside the tolerance range. This dime is only .07...
Acid soaked coin. Note the reduced diameter. Also on a rolled thin planchet of half the weight the designs (Jefferson and Monticello) would not...
The softness of the details, the porous surfaces, and the odd long thin dentals especially on the reve make me suspect a fake.
Are you a people? :)
How often does PCGS ship crossover labels to NGC? Do they really care about trying to keep NGC pops accurate? And if they had crossed it and...
From time to time I do get a small popup at the lower right soliciting to become a supporter.
They will be. All the rest of the silver coins this year are .999 fine, why would the silver coins in the limited edition set be something else?
Another term for them is "made from medals". Neither term seems to work very well on google.
True, a "mechanical error" and they have no liability. It's right their in their guarantee. Yes they would, they will reholder it for free and...
Not likely sent for crossover, Note in the Heritage auction link, that is for a sale coming up NEXT month. If it went in for cross over why...
Of course, those are politically non-controversial. Anything else and some voting bloc will be mad at you. For most of them their main job isn't...
Of the last five you showed Circulation damage circulation damage to the 0 and the AW monogram zinc rot setting in. There is also some die...
First comment, it is NOT a coin. Second comment, most "made from" medals like that are made from a melt containing a LARGE amount of metal to...
It means exactly what it says, any coin that was produced but was "Not Intended For Circulation". Pretty much any coin that was only available...
That would be the floor price value, but the free market price was already above that. The average for 1965 was 1.29 which was also the break...
Toning is the interpretation of the interference of light through a thin film of corrosion products on the surface of the coin. What colors you...
I was responding to your post where you said it looked like it had been encased in something.
It may not be. If the coin is clearly a BU coin that has been waffled it may be an error, but when the Euro was introduced the central bank in...
If you mean the dent in BU, it took a hit long ago and continued circulating. If you mean the roughness extending up to the right from the top of...
Contemporary counterfeit trade dollars would almost certainly be short weight, at least the one made to circulate in China. They passed based on...
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