It's not just the EACers, I believe most of the other high-quality fakes that have made their way into TPG slabs were also identified originally...
Stamping out smallpox? :)
Would have no chance of succeeding in less you can get the half-dollar to be in every day circulation coin first. That's the reason the state...
Agreed there's a lot of truth to that.
True, but Lincoln is very stale too.
The strip is created from three ingots of metal, two of copper nickel and one of copper. These are stacked and bonded together using very high...
I see what you're talking about on the rim above the word STATES, I also see damage 180° across the coin at QUA. I believe this to be the result...
I'd actually say it's a retained cud because you can see the rim is still visible. So the piece of the die is still present but has been severely...
The letters of STATES OF are frequently weak on Lincoln Memorial cents because they are opposite the base of Lincoln's bust, which requires a...
Not a railroad rim, finning. Original metal pushing up between the collar and the neck of the die. Usually caused by either overpressure, or...
For the same reason when people want food they go to the grocery store, that's where the food is. The coins I need are not likely to show up in a...
Well it is getting kind of old, as I said before it's been on the ASE longer than it was on the walking liberty half dollar.
No but if you go of couple weeks later you'll find they do pass legislation to change the weight and fineness of the three cent silver piece.So...
Because they don't want to go the time, trouble, and effort to search through box after box of nickels trying to find coin worth $.10.
I think that's one of the important questions. Just how "pink" is this coin actually going to be? If it turns out to be not that visually...
Yes they did strike 1970 piece dollars in coppernickel to test their ability to make dollar size coins and that material. These were part of...
Yes, the 1872 S half-dollar small S mintmark that wasn't used until 1875.
Mark Hoffman did make counterfeit coins, but he is much better known as a forger of documents, mainly documents relating to the early Mormon...
Yes, the one on the right looks like it has zinc rot around the mintmark.
You would think that, but it's surprising the number of people who come to the various forums after viewing YouTube videos that seem to think that...
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