The roughness on the neck appears to be from die rust. Was this obv used for other die marriages? Especially marriages with the obv in an...
No it is simply not the BIG 1969 S DDO. It doesn't mean that it is not A 69-S DDO. As you mention there is at least one minor DDO known, and...
I think the edge has just been ground down a long time ago.
I think a little of both. There is a die chip filling part of the top of the 9 but it also looks like a contact mark has damaged the lump from...
The mint sells them at a premium as collectors items, but in the aftermarket they are typically treated as bullion by dealers purchasing them from...
No, I think it's a die crack as is the one through the 1 of the date and up to the innr point on star 1.
What colors were the reverse dyed?
The fiber is actually softer than the coin metal, but they catch and hold dust from the air. A lot of dust is made up if silicates (think very...
They are making the Reagan dollar so Nancy will be the last First Spouse coin. While the authorizing legislation required the President to have...
Enacting them is easy, they can pass any laws they want. Enforcing them is a different matter. They can try, but if anyone actually stands up to...
if you mean photocertificates, no I don't think so. I believe the last such firm was ANAAB and they folded in Nov of 2002. ANAAB was an...
When I got mine it came with the DVD. Load it into your computer and you can blow up the images nice and large. I've heard a lot of collectors...
There are counterfeit modern bullion coins (silver gold and platinum), counterfeit (laughably) Statue Of Liberty commemorative dollars, some fake...
The Sheldon rarity scale (which is the most commonly used one) listed the rarity adjectives for the different levels as R-8 Unique or nearly so...
And those contractors have been instructed by the mint to return errors found, but if they can most of them divert them to the marketplace. That...
Take another look it IS mangled.
IF it is 2.9 grams on a precise scale it would be slightly out of spec (and an error) but so close that it is not considered to be a significant...
1803 small date large fraction, correct S-260. 1816 is N-6 1828 is N-8 an R-4 coin. 1830 is an N-3 an R-4- coin I don't pay too much attention to...
I got one of those once. Took the envelope out of the mailbox and there was the coin, 48% of it sticking out of the tear it had been making in...
There were two weight standards for the steel cent. The early ones were 2.689 grams, the ones later in the year were 2.754 grams. The tolerance...
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