He is also a serious collector in his own right as well. One of the fifteen people who have been able to assemble a complete set of early date...
If that is in a three prong PCGS slab and is graded MS it must have been a reholdering. PCGS stopped grading 56 FE as anything but Proof years ago.
Probably. I'm sure they would have a lot of questions about where a private citizen got his hands on that much plutonium.
I think better pictures might help.
Technical name is reposse coins. That really isn't correct though because reposse is the creation of a three dimensional image in metal buy...
No I don't normally have extras. Once I have a piece for the reference set I don't have much of a reason to buy more.
Yes but the cuts will be fresh. A contemporaneously cut milled dollar would have circulated and the edges of the cut will be worn like the...
Not a "partial die clip", an incomplete blanking punch or incomplete clip. Has nothing to do with the die. The blanking punch did not completely...
I wonder if that was how MMNS did their "Halo" slabs. Yes, no problem. I just walk up to the teller and say I want X amount of dollars from my...
Yes it would be very different that for the proofs. An early die state for the bullion coins would probably be 25,000 to 50,000 coins or more,...
Since the link for the 1804 C-6 die stages posed back in 2009 is dead, here is another link that takes you to a Coinfacts page that illustrates 13...
I believe I do see the crack between the T and Y. It is very faint.
It also depends on what acid you use. There are other acids that will strip away the copper and leave the zinc relatively unharmed. I believe...
Sharpness of a 40, some weakness in the strike. Not sure if the area at 4:00 on the obv and corresponding area on the reverse is damage or...
I think what he means is the DIE was worked on and left tool marks on the coin near the obv denticals. He doesn't mean the coin was tooled.
True, but it is usually done with the priority. And first class package rate is HIGHER than priority flat rate. The figures I gave above was for...
Correct, the crossbar of the F is an M. FM = Franklin Mint
Depends on whether or not the cat is dead when you open the box.
The Registered fee includes insurance to the declared value. The Priority insured is the flat rate fee and when the fee for insurance is added to...
You can still buy the molds and casting resin and make them yourself.
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