I'm surprised such a valuable package was shipped FedEx rather than registered mail.
I'm no expert on these, but I do see something to the right of the lower loop of the 8, maybe the belly of a 5?
Here you go..https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-do-you-spot-fake-trade-dollars-anyway.63695/
Not that I know of. Joe Kirchgesser (?sp) is working on a definitive reference work on trade dollars that I expect will cover pretty much...
mintage about 700k, and most shipped to China, where most of them were melted.
I'll guess "no bean"
Harder to find than most people realize.
Hey Kanga, that's a "broken arrows", an unofficial variety I have been looking for. Note how part of the lowest arrow shaft is partly missing....
Here's an AU55 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] this has the "small, wide spaced cc rev" made with a rev die that was used from 1873 all the way through 1876. The 1875 CC...
Only one I have, but I am a fan. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks for showing the neat campaign tokens and putting them in historical context.
I like the "sliding contact under pressure" phrase. I'll propose: "A form of post mint damage characterized by a linear or curvilinear mark into...
I believe graffiti is in a sub category of scratches.
My biggest bomb was the 65-S half, which I thought would gold bean.. it didn't sticker at all. I expect that some of the misses are simply...
I believe that's important, and should be the subject of a thread about scratches and "gradability." We're still trying to arrive at a...
I had seven coins where CAC and I were in agreement; seven where we disagreed. Of those seven, all of them were coins that I thought should...
The coin has a number of problems in the details of the devices that lead me to believe it's a fake. Also, for a heavy blow in the center not to...
Let me try this, based on ToughCoins original def: "A form of post mint damage characterized by a linear or curvilinear mark into the surface of...
thinking about other marks, like chops, baggies, test marks; it occurs to me that a scratch is due to pressure applied over time, whereas the...
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