Except that die life has also lengthened. A quarter die say now has a life of maybe 750K strikes and the press runs at 750 coins per minute so...
Yes you can do that, but if you use the credit card dispute transaction methone to get back from paypal as "gift" you gave to someone else, there...
So show it in comparison with a Washington quarter it's the same size as the Standing Liberty. Actually no they couldn't. If they could have I'm...
When the metal is melted there are often bubbles of trapped gases contained within it, especially with the copper/zinc alloy because copper melts...
Telling a Congressman you're going to store millions of dollars in cash at his house is going to discourage him???
Michael, you images of the genuine are worthless because you pictured a completely different variety. Back then every die was made by hand and...
From the close up images I've seen of a couple the 64 SMS coins, the dies were heavily and coarsely polished and not finished with the polishing...
Die stage IX, terminal die stage or close to it.
Are you sure that's a blanking press? It looks to me like a Schuler horizontal strike coining press.
Even if it was one bullion ruthenium coin could fairly easily consume the worlds entire annual production of the metal. (World annual production...
It does look like it could be a rim cud.
As mentioned the images aren't good enough to authenticate for sure, but the rims on the reverse look very weak and rounded for a 1909 of any...
At the top of the page you should see something that says HOME >FORUMS >COIN FORUMS >US COIN FORUMS. Click on US Coin Forums. On the page that...
I've seen albums with pages for slabs before. Problem is once you get them filled they tend to be so heavy they tend to break.
Sorry for not responding sooner but the site wouldn't accept my reply post on this thread. A few of the artists still do some hand modeling in...
Unless they have changed recently ( since April of this year) their "metal value" for clad dimes, quarters and half dollars that are mutilated but...
Wouldn't be fair, they didn't have a special mint set in the state quarter series (Four of the 'states' aren't states, they're Commonwealths.)
Machine malfuctioned and didn't deliver the cigarettes so the owner used a couple house quarters to get them for him.
Yes it is definitely a 1794. The liberty caps with lettered edge were 1793 - Dec 1795. The 1793's have Liberty in a smaller letter font and...
A die scratch would not run from the field out into the rim area because the field of the die is a high area and the portion that creates the rim...
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