That explains him. :)
It appears to be in a Littleton package and a typical brilliant proof. Probably not worth more than a dollar. There are no initials because the...
Dieffenbacher shows diagnostics on some of the various counterfeits but doesn't really go into where they were produced. It also only shows a...
Need images.
Pictures? But almost certainly another case of one side having been ground off. Unless by some chance it does happen to turn out to be something...
Some might but not all of them. They all weigh the same but the diameters and thicknesses can be different.
Impossible to know at this point what the minage will actually be. Have you looked at the actual mintages of the commemorative dollars? They...
That is correct. The BEP prints the notes but they are just so much paper until the Federal Reserve purchases them at face value. At that point...
Actually the bust is based on an ancient Greek statue entitle "crouching Venus" and Longacre used the same bust with modifications for pretty...
Federal Reserve notes are issued by the Federal Reserve, Coins are issued by the United States government, not the same thing or the same entity.
The only horror I see are all the hairlines on the coin, and I don't think they came from dropping it.
From what I see it appears to be a fake.
Not to mention if it was struck by the quarter dies the planchet would have spread out and then would not have fit into the cent collar.
One of the members of my local coin club may have scored a find due to the hunt. In a roll of dimes he found a 1908 quarter eagle.
I didn't follow the link. You are right great site, S-1405 so mid 1600's.
The Philadelphia Zerbe's WERE minted in Philadelphia, the S mint Zerbe's WERE minted in San Francisco, and the Zerbe proofs were minted at the...
You are buying them because you enjoy them right? Then just buy the raw ones. They look pretty much exactly the same as the slabbed ones, and...
Chinese cash coin from the peking board of revenue, it is not one of the most recent ones but I don't have time right now to determine which...
If a Zerbe reverse die was sent to Denver it would not have a D mintmark
I've NEVER heard of Zerbe proofs from Denver. The only special 1921 D Morgans I've ever heard of were the engraved ones from the first 100 coins...
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