They did a good job,especially on the obverse. I wonder why they didn't do a better job on the reverse. The area where the hole was plugged is...
I think I would agree, planchet flaw.
So you think it is OK for sellers to cancel auctions if they don't bring as much as the seller thinks they should.
No, you're welcome.
Problem is Ebay will never agree with you and claim they see no evidence. Bids run up by shills means higher revenue for them. Baseball21...
If the bullion value of a numismatic coin is a significant percentage of the coins value, it WILL rise along with the metal price. The higher...
Yes, if you have it graded on site and returned before the end of the show, you can figure a minimum of $125.
Now that they do so much work with computer design and CNC for cutting master hubs they tend to "tweak" the designs every year to improve metal...
Sorry double post.
Fortin is the most recent reference and is probably more complete.
Appears to be a British farthing, maybe a canadian cent. weight would be important. I once had what appeared to be a full brockage farthing like...
It will be silver in color. It will be smaller in diameter than a cent. (But probably slightly larger than a dime.) The weight (for a post 1964)...
The TPG's can't tell them apart consistently either. A high end business strike is pretty much indistinguishable from a mid range SMS. But a...
It showed a 1958 D PCGS graded cent that he claimed was a D/S and that the only reason it wasn't called that on the label was because two out of...
Some of the more widely collected countries may have something like the CPG for that specific country, in that country. But collectors in most...
I like his explanation for how it came about. Apparently San Francisco was using blank planchets that already had S mintmarks on them and those...
And it WAS the bags from the vaults that got melted. AS far as I know the Treasury never made any attempt to recover dollars from circulation for...
Not really, they have always been a major counterfeiter of trade dollars. Fake trade dollars from China were rather common in the 70's. And of...
The 50-D was the only one I never found in circulation, on the other hand that was back in the 1970's. As for the 2009's you don't find them...
AMEN. The way I look at it, say I work with my coins for five hours a well. That's five hours or "entertainment". I figure that if I went out...
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