USPS, UPS, and FedEx people do make mistakes. Just this past week I had to put someone else's mail back out in the box that was delivered to me...
Rob "We buy Gold" locations, coin dealers etc.
The cedar closet and mothballs will have no effect on the moisture.
As mentioned the quarter is Machine Doubling Damage also known as strike doubling. The cent is just Post Strike Damage.
Blow up a balloon with water and seal it. As long as there are no manufacturing flaws in it it will hold until the rubber oxides enough that it...
That can be done but it is pretty quiet. It does make a sound though, so if you get enough people doing it at the same time it is audible over a...
Well if you can make them for three or four cents apiece and pass them as quarters you make 20 cents a coin. You won't get rich but you make...
Another good example of why you don't take a dealers opinion of what an error is unless they specialize in them. Your average dealer does not...
News to me. As far as I know they have always paid off on their rewards. If they reneged I'm sure it would be widely reported and be very...
If it was a case of went greedy for the money, why did they melt down the coins they confiscated? You will note my comment was based on the nine...
Which did not react to the slab being dropped in. I haven't looked but has PCGS posted anything on their website about this or is it just a...
Correct, every currently known 1933 double eagle eventually traces back to Switt. But he had disbursed at least ten of them by 1940 and they were...
No but the government didn't issue the nations paper currency then either. It was issued by the state banks, private banks, and even some...
No it was purchased from a dealer in Texas (Possibly B Max Mehl) and following the laws on the books at the time they applied for an export...
If it was aluminum it would weigh 1.9 grams. It clearly can't be aluminum. but a white metal counterfeit might be possible using a tin or zinc...
While back our local bank was selling collector coins and sets, but they didn't belong to the bank they were part of a commercial arrangement with...
It does happen on the others series, but since there is no 83/2 in those other series no one pays any attention to it.
cpm9ball got it right, post strike damage by being squezed between another coin and some other object that damaged the obv. Valuable as an...
Near date is still a better term because if the obverse die is slightly misaligned you can have near dates with narrow rims or far dates with wide...
No there weren't Except an nickel or coppernickel planchet of 19 mm and equal thickness would also weigh 3.1 grams (Density of copper and nickel...
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