tolerance range is 5.44 to 5.9 grams
No. They made it illegal to import Kruggrands dated after 1985 but earlier ones were perfectly legal to own. (The idea was to protest apartheid,...
NGC discontinued the multi-coin holders back in 2011. They did continue them for authorized dealers but that only lasted a few months. That is...
About a 5. I could take em or leave em. A REALLY nice one is a sight to behold but for the most part they are just common "stuff".
Every time I have had the change dropped at a drive through the cashier has replaced it. I would say that makes the dropped change the property...
They do, it's built into the price of the sandwich. Those individually packaged sauces cost them considerably more than that napkin, so they...
Yes I do. Or at least that it could. I have explained how these were created before. In order to "dress up" the finish on the dies as they...
Insider got it, Incomplete rinsing. You have to rinse and rinse and rinse to make sure you get rid of EVERY trace of the dip. This is also why...
No they've never slabbed one still in the paper roll (and it probably wouldn't be a good idea since the paper can be reactive and any outgassing...
Back before the Territories quarters came out there was a private mint that produced fantasy pieces of their own designs. Usually they overstruck...
Without seeing the coin we can't tell what is actually wrong if anything. If there are other coins know with this error can you link to a picture...
When I was at the Philadelphia mint in 1976 they still had a furnace for melting and casting ingots for the cents and nickels (the clad strip had...
You have to remember these coins were not made to be collectors items. They are made the same way and handled the same way as the coins that got...
Can't be an off-center, one it is still in the collar, and two all of the details are still on the coin. It is a MAD but both dies are misaligned...
At one time Lost Dutchman had a whole box of them. Well for one thing the mint no longer has melting furnaces capable of melting them down....
Edge lettering comes second. Striking a lettered edge planchet in a plain collar crushes the edge lettering. I have some Conder tokens that were...
They appear to me to be WAM, all 4 of them
They started doing that 7 years ago. I have slabbed rolls from all four of the major services. Just one reason, you can sell the unopened roll...
I'm not convinced that their 1.1 and 1.2 are actually different varieties. It it is then I would agree the date of use for 1.2 is wrong. I have...
OK I thought that was what our meant but I wasn't sure. In that case it may be an even better deal because those CQR prices are probably 5 to 7...
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