In Grellmans second edition they were separate varieties, I don't have a third edition. Dan Holmes die have an N-42 in his set so it is probably...
Huh? The plating is almost ALL of the 2.5% Cu
Follow the link that BadThad posted and look at the images posted showing the difference between the large date and small date. If your 3.11 gm...
Back in the mid 1980's in the Wall Street Journal there was an article about a new record for a painting by a living artist, $25 million for a...
17.9 mm is the diameter of a dime so the coin will be smaller than a regular cent and I would expect missing details and possibly missing rims at...
I'd say one year, maybe two at the most, and six months wouldn't surprise me.
I agree the obv is that of N-15, but I can't tell if it is N-15 or 42. They both use the same obv.
Probably for the same reason we now have cent planchets made for our mint it was cheaper and easier than making them themselves. We had excess...
I obviously need a better understanding of how the horizontal Schuler presses work. The vertical presses I understand. The fingers slide across...
They made foreign coins at all three mints, but usually not the same coin at all three at the same time. In 1972 Denver made coins for Honduras...
Because you have an old book that was printed in 1964 or earlier before the decision was made to eliminate the mintmarks. The book was printed...
The figures I have seen and use are between one and two ten thousandths of an inch.
Looks like an Irish Halfpenny.
Whats worse is the number sold keeps going down. It has "sold out" twice and been listed as unavailable, but it is still on sale and the number...
I believe it was the other way around, the original Verdi-gone was detectable, the current VerdiCare is not.
If they are submitted for grading they will detail or possibly be bodybagged. If submitted for conservation and they can remove the lacquer and...
The Ike came out in 1971 after the Mint and proof sets were already sold. I'm not sure why they didn't include them in the 1972 mint sets. They...
Struck through a capped die. In the case of the OP coin through a very late stage capped die.
That would be correct for 1992 not 82.
Problem is todays horizontal striking presses don't use feed fingers or at least not around the dies. Something has scraped across the die but...
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