Most of them that legally can. Our club ran into that problem a couple years ago the location where we had our show. It was government owned and...
It could still be goldplated, the plating wouldn't add more than a few cents to the cost of materials.
This can be an interesting collecting idea, there are a fair number of people that collect their birth year. Doing it for just U. S. coins so is...
Pure silver is 10.5 not 9.5. The specific gravity of awar nickel is between 9.25 and 9.32 specific gravity of the coppernickel five cent piece is...
With enough circulation, a proof coin can lose all its mirror fields and no longer look like a proof. By the time this occurred, the grade would...
Were going to need pictures to be able to determine what it is. What you describe might be lathe lines, or it could just be post strike damage....
Pictures aren't the best, what does it weigh? Slight chance it may be struck on a thin planchet.
Struck through a thin grease film.
And if it was a proof set dated after 1998, those sets can just be opened up, the coins switched or moved around, and then re-closed and it's...
Original black NGC slab (something about a $3000 piece of plastic makes your coin look better :) ), PCGS Regency slab as my second choice.
The one everyone calls copper is actually brass, not bronze. Bronze has to contain tin, and the U. S. cent stopped containing tin in 1963. Copper...
Frankly you probably pretty much already destroyed most of the numismatic value of the coins with the vinegar and salt so if you really want to...
I was going to ask the same question. The two images shown are not from the same obverse die and with a mintage of only 268 coins I seriously...
One made of a magnetic iron alloy, rather than say brass, or a nonmagnetic stainless steel alloy.
The 1833 is an N-3.
That's what happens when you come from Kentucky. :)
Also on 222 the gap between the ends of the wreath is centered below the S in STATES.
If what you're asking is can you make a coin where the rim is lower towards the center of the coin then at the outer edge, the answer is yes. If...
Another numismatic tidbit, 1796 was the first year that all of the coins authorized by the mint act of 1793 were produced. It was also the last...
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