Diameter of a half eagle (5 dollar gold) is 21 mm. So the difference in diameter is only .21 mm Even the quarter eagle is 18 mm. 16.5 mm is the...
@Shrews1994 reread my explanation in post #9. As far as I know there is no such thing as a "ponytail error" just detail missing from...
Not an error but it does look like there is low relief detail loss for overpolishing of the die.
Mountain Man Ebay started doing something new. When an auction ends or is ended it seems you can no longer go to it directly. Ebay instead...
The law says the decision as to what the nation needs is HIS. In practice he accepts the Fed's requests but he doesn't HAVE to.
Notice the ACE said those are RETAIL values, what you would have to pay a dealer for them, not what you could sell them for.
But using it over and over again by people has no bearing on the cost of production. Even if somehow it came back to the government and they...
It does occur at the mint and it occurs in the press, but it occurs due to lateral movement of the die after the "moment" of strike and anything...
And the damage at the right base of the memorial on the 1966.
By the time the 1965 diems were produced it had long before been decided that the coins for the next five years would not have mintmarks so there...
3 grams underweight, pretty much impossible. They may have been using automatic weighing machines by then, but every planchet was still...
That covers the second paragraph in my last response. Yes but it means that they MUST make what the Secretary feels necessary, If he decides the...
I think it's a error label and should say either improperly annealed or sintered planchet.
There is no law that says they HAVE to make the cents. The law defines the cent, mandates the size and composition, and authorizes their...
Another way to get a good idea what a proof coin looks like is just go to ebay and buy one of the year of the year you are interested in (or at...
All three (the OP coin and the two in post #6) are copies, not Bashlow pieces.
Not of SBA dollar sets. (The subject of the thread) I'm almost certain there was.
Breen refers to them as die cuts. I think they are too heavy to be called die scratches, I'd call them die gouges, but die cuts would be a good...
Very good questions. If you went digging back through the Mint sales figures in old issues of Numismatic news you could probably figure it out....
Mr Crawford Natho March 27 1790 Mr Charles Stewart Witen (?) No 7 George Street Edinburgh Mr MacKnight and Mrs Crawford compliments to Mr & Mrs...
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