They used the same hiding technique for the 1913 V nickel in the Hawaii 5-0 episode The $100,000 nickel. I have a collection of over 6,000 old...
You have to pay for a membership for either PCGS or NGC in order to submit coins yourself. For PCGS you have to join their membership club, for...
Well as usual I got here late. This is what I would call an Advertising Slab (I lump Davidswagers Club slab, Promotional Slab, and Show slab...
Depends on how they define ALL. Just one of each President (about 40 coins for $200), P and D (80 coins for $200), PDS (120 coins, 40 of them...
I would spread it around as well. As I said it is an improvement, but the new institutions could fail as well so their stocks could become...
Frankly this sounds like an improvement. Under the current system any deposits over $250,000 in a failed institution would simply be lost. The...
Not a cob, and not a "silver doubloon" Cobs were irregular in shape and ended in the early 1700's. A true doubloon was a gold 2 escudo, though...
Dis-locations Works as a play on words three different ways.
NSP beat me to it. I come up with S-245 as well. Look at the right stem ad where it points at the A (right base) and the gap between the ends of...
Yep, former encased cent.
I'll vote real.
No, and even if I did my collection would not make a good photo reference. I've mentioned this several times. If you want a good one use the...
Not if you are familiar with them. Even ignoring the raised lettering it is easy to spot.
The people mentioning the date are correct, the shape of the 6 is wrong.
But you won't find tolerance information in the Redbook.
One well known example is the spike chin half cent. But I will agree that for a foreign object strike-through to do damage to the die it has to...
Ignoring the crack it does appear to match B-23, and it appears to be a late die state. I don't know if this variety is known for this crack in...
The mint didn't have the coins they were out in circulation, but once the content changed in 1834 the older coin were worth more as metal and the...
Correct, once the war ended the Mint immediately ordered planchets from Bolton. They arrived in December 1815 and they immediately began striking...
Better reference for specs on US coins is the Coin World Almanac
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