Just because the design change makes full steps much more common doesn't stopp full steps from being full steps. it just means there is little or...
A scratch would be raised with rather uniform depth/height and edges. A crack with show the rough edges left by the crack.
I suspect an impaired proof.
Why? Someone will probably pay silly money for it, and Heritage will make a nice profit. Then if they change their mind or later decide it was...
Smart move, mine has the same instructions.
You're thinking of the 40% silver sets. Their mintage figure was mandated by congress, the mintages of the clad proof sets were not and the...
You wouldn't believe how many times I have heard people relate stories about numismatic items that "have been in the family for generations, came...
Can't tell if it is a die chip or a contact mark.
I haven't looked to see what their surcharge for Mint errors is now, but it used to be an extra $50 which would have made the cost closer to $95....
Die chip filling the mintmark, and the mintmarks has received contact damage as well.
We have already had a commemorative coin with surcharges going to the Law Enforcement Memorial Fund. Not that I am disagreeing with the...
It probably got locked because further speculation is meaningless until PCGS reviews the coin in question.
Unfortunately there are a lot of coins in PCGS slabs with FS designations that don't meet their own definition of FS. If the coin in picture...
I know objectives 1 and 2 were accomplished, at least to some extent. I don't know if objectives 3 and 4 were accomplished.
And another 96 NC-4 is found, congratulations. (I'd probably try and make you an offer for it but I already have one.)
If they do they shouldn't. The coin needs to stand on its own. What its value is, or whether it would become a new pop-top should not influence...
Scratched not snips. Only damaged on one side. Snips would have made cuts on both sides.
I would think the ones that were perfectly vertical are the ones that create foldover strikes. If they aren't completely vertical, once the...
Internal flaws in the planchets (such as from laminations) can result in what was known as a "dumb" (as in deaf and dumb) planchet that just goes...
There are a LOT of subtle differences in 1798, there are 45 different varieties that year, more than any other than 1794 which had 59. And...
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