The explanations are correct, but it is not a mint error.
It will cost you considerably more to have it slabbed than the coin is worth
That's what I think too the copper has been stripped off post strike. It isn't an error coin, it's an altered coin.
My pick up point is the second S in STATES. On type 1 the tail goes up to the middle bar of the E, on the type 2 it doesn't rise above the top of...
Have to admit the design is better than many of the mints designs, but if you didn't already know ahead of time what the purpose of the design was...
What about all the ones they sold years ago as scrap in the late 60's early 70's that don't HAVE COA's? I could possibly see it for the 1996...
Paper money is issued by a government and is "legal" to be used as money, so paper notes are coins.
But unfortunately not everyone was.
No because there will always be someone new coming in with a parking lot coin wanting to know about their great error coin discovery.
Can't say anything from that tiny image.
You mean marginally larger, right. Hence the slightly larger type 1 blank doesn't drop down into the collar.
Yes, but that is all he said. Conversation could have gone just as you postulated but the jewelers replay could just as easily have been. "Sorry...
Checked the definition of a coin in dictionaries from five different publishers, all included that they are to be used as money. The NIFC pieces...
I have gotten invitations and I only have a free membership. Unfortunately I've never been able to attend.
In my opinion, post 2001 halves are not coins. Sounds about right to me.
Wasn't sarcasm, just a statement of fact. The other methods all have shortcomings and can be fooled. The scratch test only test the outermost...
It was face down on the pavement when it was run over a few times, then picked back up.
Where do you get that the jeweler couldn't tell it was plated. All the OP said was the jeweler said it wasn't silver.
Yes he sold all three collections. The early dates was missing one variety 1793 NC-5 with is still unique and in the ANS collection (Although it...
The only truly accurate test is to melt it down, stirring to insure a homogeneous mixture, then take a sample and assay it.
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