That would be one frugal gal, I don't spend hardly anything on shoes. :)
You personally took it from a mint sewn bag in 1950 and have had it in your possession ever since?
The seller has to approve the question for public viewing, it isn't automatic. Most don't approve it, especially if it paints them or what they...
The only coin struck at the US Mint for another country since 1984 was the 2000 Iceland 1000 Kroner.
Just ever so slightly out of tolerance, but no premium for a "thin planchet" cent only .03 grams light. Find one .4 grams out of tolerance and...
I tossed out #2 because of the straight leg on the 7. The downstroke of the 7 should be curved.
I saw Jack's coin posted on another thread/forum a week or two ago where they were asking if it might be a 94 head of 93. The pictures on that...
Not when you would be mixing an obverse die with a reverse die from a coin series that had been discontinued 5 years earlier.
I can relate. I look at a lot of exhibits and just having the coins in slabs bugs me, I think it make the exhibit unattractive. It is even worse...
13 nurses for one injured toe. Is it any wonder medical costs keep rising.
From their latest statements they plan on trying to move further AWAY from the use of allegorical depictions of Liberty. Figures. For forty...
I really have to wonder how many here will get that reference.
People can ASK anything they want for a coin. Getting it is another matter completely. Every now and then someone with more money than knowledge...
Change that to "Scratch testing is only evil if the coin has numismatic vaue over and above that of the bullion value". If a coin does have...
There is another thread on this same subject in which he has in a way. In it I quote from Roger's book on the experimental cents and nickels of...
They have no mintmarks because NONE of the mints used mintmarks from 1965 through 1967. It was the governments way of trying to keep coin...
Especially a concentrated acid like Glacial Acetic would be. Most acids the average person comes in contact with have already been diluted to...
The type 1 and type 2 are only found on the proofs. I'm about positive that all of the business strike 1981 S SBA's are type 1.
that's OK, the animal on the Buffalo nickel isn't a buffalo.
I'll be there Friday and part of Saturday. For YN's in the area the youth auction is something you shouldn't miss.
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