Coins have two sides. Do you have a picture of the other side?
That is exactly what they are doing buying with dreams of getting a whole roll of Unc CC coins. The number of people who are suckers for the scam...
I'm surprised they ever got it in the first place. Compugrade beat them to it by 7 years. Patents are supposed to be new inventions.
Capital gains only kicks in if they have been held for over a year. For less than a year it's treated as regular income and taxed at that rate....
2009 D cents are made of copper plated zinc and weigh 2.5 grams (+/- .13 grams) and the copper plating weighs about .05 grams. So even removing...
Why? An 82 D LD Zinc is common
Looks like a hole in the plating with zinc rot inside,
I think the second strike caught the edge of the top of the I and mashed it.
The 1877 has a compact straight date, this has a widely spaced curved date, The obverse is also struck from a type II hub that wasn't used until...
That isn't always true, some of the "legal tender" NCLT coins out there CAN'T be spent even in the purported country of issue.
I don't know about cleaning, but at one time coin doctors were using laser to spot soften/melt gold coins to remove contact marks and light scratches.
These are of questionable value with NGC's being the better site. Most fake slabs use information from genuine slabs so the the sites stating...
But as a HOBBY, I'm not sure I want coin values strong. It prices me out of the market for those items I want. High prices that keep collectors...
The Mint has long had antipathy toward collectors and I think they still do, but they want our money so they tolerate us.
Paddy I believe what he is trying to say is distorted hub doubling, it is a class of doubled die. Frankly I don't see it.
It is original, the brown Ikes did not have any papers stating composition or Certificates of Authenticity.
Or even modern gold bullion coins,
I know, that's one reason why I don't consider NCLT (or NIFC if you prefer) to actually be coins.
The nickel could have also been acid soaked before it was lost. It didn't come from the mint like that. (Unless it is struck on a cent planchet)
JeffB is correct, it was a short sighted attempt at budget cutting. I guess they thought that since they made all these coins for circulation...
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