No because the two are not interchangable. A die made to be used as the anvil die can not be used as a hammer die and vice versa. The necks of...
Some kind of game token, not a coin.
Happened to me once, not on coins. Heavy item, paid $20 extra for postage. Seller printed out a label, delivery tracking only and dropped it in...
Very nice broadstrike. "cupped" just means that it bent a little toward the hammer die.
Don't learn what errors are known, learn about how coins are made and what normal coins look like. Then you can recognize coins that aren't...
You are all making the assumption (except Paddy) that there can only be one MPD die for the year. I see what Paddy sees, but I'm not sure the...
And they had probably spent more than that on SDB fees over the years to keep the fortune safe.
Not the major one.
If anything gold is over valued. It has very little industrial use so it's only real USE is for jewelry and there is plenty for that. They say...
Do the acetone. You may not be able to see a fingerprint, but if it is there it may show in the future. You need to remove the oils, salts and...
Not if the coin is a 1992 or 92 D cent (One of them, I forget which, can reach four figures in value. And that is four figures BEFORE the decimal...
Of course NGC price guides are notoriously high compared to real world prices.
In my opinion Blue books don't really have data (There is little information about the coins and the prices were pretty meaningless when the book...
I would assume the two pictures of the dime are from different coins. If they are the same coin then it is counterstamped on a counterfeit...
Not true, the close AM varieties are frequently not touching by varying amounts due to polishing of the dies. If they ARE touching then you know...
Long day, you're bored, you're tired, you've looked at 300 dies already, and you missed something. Remember on even something as major at the...
Then you haven't been paying close enough attention, I do mess up sometimes. Usually a given series will have the dies installed the same way for...
Or 1873. Even if you ignore the gold there are 30 different coins that year. 37 if you include both the open and closed 3's. Include the gold...
Fake and not one that should fool anyone.
I use the $3 plastic ones from Harbor Freight sure they aren't high precision but they are probably accurate to .1mm which is typically good...
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