On one of my Conder tokens replaced a MS piece with a nice XF because I liked the color better.
Comes from old terminology. The coin that paddy showed has been call "railroad rims" for decades even though it is on the edge of the coin and...
Very common on Zincolns but sometimes shows up on copper cents and other denominations as well.
Looks like a fin has broken loose from the rim and is still attached at the other end. No added silver, just the extruded rim of this coin.
Yes I'm surprised. Someone puts up a doubled die coin that has split serfs that you can only see under high magnification and it get a ton of...
Both services have gotten better in the past few years but before that they were horrible. And even with the recent ones you would be well...
Hate to think what it would look like today if the Egyptian Government hadn't pulled it from the sale in 1954. If you don't understand this is...
How do you explain the severe doubling in the crown?
And I posted it two hours earlier.
Tissue test should also work. Lay a single layer of tissue (bathroom or facial) over it. If it is silver it will look white through the tissue,...
The only coin counterstamped by the US Mint were the 1848 quarter eagles counterstamped CAL. from the first shipment of California gold.
Are you sure the first images aren't the error (pictures 1,2,and 3) and the fifth picture isn't the normal one? Note the area of the crown above...
But of a totally different variety. Doesn't matter, the coin in question is a fake. Looks like a casting sprue above and to the right of the...
Yes, the pictures don't enlarge well and it looks like they tried to weaken some of the diagnostics but it is a "vampire hub" fake.
Considering the CC mint didn't open until 1870.......
Let's add more info for as well. They also struck quarters with no mintmark from 1976 through 1979. It has been in the Coin World Almanac since...
Actually by posting here you were asking for anyone's and everyone's input. As has been pointed out PCGS is a publicly traded company on the...
But they don't have to be PROFESSIONALLY slabbed to preserve them. Good generic shells will protect them almost as well as TPG slabs, especially...
Simple, they were released and they ordered a large quantity before the mint pulled them. From the Coin News article Paradise Mint didn't...
True, even the TPG's graders can only do it about 75 to 80% of the time. And Bowers isn't saying anything those of us who have been collecting...
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