If it is the one I'm thinking of, it wasn't a dealer that had the theft so he probably didn't have access to the security room.
Never mind I reread the laws and see I misinterpreted them.
You start the bidding low and sometimes things like this happen.
Which was why Eric Newman keep it when he sold off the other four. It was the best of the five coins.
Attribution is correct.
Then why is the denomination on the coin a 4? Sure it isn't 4 ghirsh or 20 halala?
Your understanding about the McDermott coin is correct. He loved to show off that coin and pass it around among non-collectors. He would loan it...
It also may give the TPG a way out of their grading guarantee. If a coin is resubmitted and it goes from X on the old label to Y on the new one,...
Simple answer...... No they don't.
They've only been proofs for about the past 30 years. Before that they were business strikes. Back when the Walton specimen resurfaced Don...
Well for starters if it was struck on a dime planchet it wouldn't be copper colored. Two the weight is .1 grams ABOVE the maximum weight...
But the layers are not rolled out individually and then bonded together. They are bonded into an ingot and then that ingot is rolled out by...
Nope almost ALL of them were 1974 Philadelphia cents, there was only one 1974-D and I don't believe it was ever intended to be made (All the...
Looks like a normal quarter to me. What are you seeing?
The lasers don't engrave the dies, they do the etching on the dies to produce the cameo frost on the proofs.
Make that 1990 when they started putting the mintmarks on the hubs and I'll agree. In 1980 they were still adding the mintmark to each die by...
They were grading not identifying/attributing.
Since when is 300 Euros a dollar? Or do they know something we don't? :)
A lot of them, YES. If it isn't on the slab they won't believe it.
If they did the problem would be you would need two different sizes. The 1836 and later cents were struck in close collars and are 28.5 mm. But...
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