But if yours did happen to be an off-metal planchet, that heavy scratch dropped the value by about two thirds to three quarters. (In other words...
You say you know the weight so what is it? Being magnetic enough to stick to the magnet could be a heavy nickel plating which you failed to...
So try the link permanently stickied to the top of this forum https://www.cointalk.com/threads/is-my-two-headed-tailed-coin-real.3257/
Not pre-strike (The lines were not on the planchet), not post strike (The lines were not added after the coin was struck.) The lines were the...
But since the government didn't file the forfeiture case, the coins should have been returned in 2005 and the case never should have gone to...
Coin collectors and numismatists
You can get Xylene the same place you get acetone, paint dept.
It's the $8 invoice fee that I find silly (and a blatant money grab.)
I think I said that.
Just remember Registered is very very safe, but it can also be SLOW. You are trading speed for safety and lower rates. The private insurers know...
I'm thinking feed finger damage from the fingers rubbing across the face of the die.
No they caught it, they sue to force the forfeiture proceedings that the government failed to file in time. And it was part of the grounds for...
Copper is very touchy. I have seen copper coins that were helped by NCS, and I have seen a lot of copper that came back looking (in my opinion)...
I'm a member of the club but I don't usually make the show.
It's not that expensive. $25,000 declared registered mail package is $53.50 + flat rate priority box. (For comparison purposes a Priority mail...
A clip is strictly a planchet defect. (and a clip ISN'T a variety, it is an error.) Your coins are the result of the obv die not being precisely...
Ones you actually need for your collection.
No it just goes dormant and then pops back up again every so often. Most likely it will eventually happen someday.
Appears to be some sort of seal ring with the figure of an angel (or at least a winged figure) holding a spear cut incise into it. A ring of this...
I know at one time they used a cream of tatar solution to clean and brighten the silver planchets. Back in 2008 when the "burnished" ASE's first...
Separate names with a comma.
