They decided to "solve" the problem of the legality of owning pattern coins back in 1896. They passed legislation making patterns issued 1896 and...
I need to see one of these in person. Here on the computer screen I'm seeing "brown" gold.
Yes the planchet faces are parallel, and the dies are square to the planchet, but the die faces are NOT flat. They are slightly convex. So...
All look like rim bumps (damage)
Idhair has pegged the first two, the third one IS a shallow N reverse hub which eliminates 1878 as a possibility and I believe knocks out 1873 as...
I think it is a 1967 half dollar, made in Denver.
Yes and the souvenir sets medals were about silver dollar size, made of bronze and were the respective medal for that mint with the treasury seal...
Shhh the government did that at one time. Decided that anything not conforming to the specifications set forth in the Coinage act of 1873 were...
I'd call them die wear flow lines.
I don't think so. The clad layed would be struck on one side by the reverse die, and on the other side by the flat "die" of the other planchet....
So he says it's a cud that's not a cud yet. In other words a die chip. Or if you want to be generous a very small internal die break.
I would guess that a full partial collar strike could be considered to be a one sided broadstrike. The defining feature of a broad strike is that...
True but it can be a good first step and it will probably eliminate close to 90% of the fakes commonly encountered. For that other 10% other...
You do if they used a coin that had the cuds as the model for their fake dies. But in this case I believe it is just a case of cleaning not...
Most likely the company has a contract with PCGS to not provide those slab shells or shells of the same or similar design, to anyone else. They...
You did not get those from the US mint, those are aftermarket sets put together by a private company.
A TPG? Consistent? Surely you jest.
I'm not sure if CAC has beaned any counterfeits, they might have. As for so mny getting by the TPG's that has been a more recent thing. I used...
Well David has always maintained that HE never submits coins to PCGS himself. It would be a conflict of interest. Not likely NGC beat them to...
In the words of the guys selling common coins for thousands of dollars "but it only has to work once."
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