May I draw your attention to a dual dated gold half dollar issued last year? Not to mention we just had a Baseball comemorative. Don't like the...
Not an error, more like a variety. New collars with a different reed count and they used both old and new collars in the same year.
The vast majority WAS melted. What exists today is just a small portion of what was issued in all the years before 1933. No $100 total if it...
They did sometimes reuse the slab numbers on the sample slabs (NGC denies this but examples have been found for the same generation of slab with...
Jessika, the pictures aren't quite good enough but I suspect what you have is a regular cent with zinc rot at the mintmark that someone then plated.
Yes that was the only foreign coin struck by the US Mint since 1984, a 1000 Kr of Iceland. The reason for that was they were making a special...
Don't scratch it. There are a few Sac dollars known struck on 1999 SBA planchets. these would have silver colored outer layers but would still...
I never said there was.
The mint uses terms differently than we do. If a coin is a proof, we call it a proof, the mint calls it a proof. If a coin is a piece of...
I have English pieces from the 9th century, and I have chinese pieces from all eras since the third century BC I'm not sure how close I can come...
When do you consider the "ancient" period to have ended?
Since you say this was a silent auction and the money was going for a good cause I would assume it was for a charity of some kind. If so you may...
Some of the links take you to pdf downloads from Google books, others like the one 19Lyds posted take you to what appears to be a russian site...
I could have picked up all I wanted at the coin show in Muncie IN this past Sunday at the same price or less and not have to wait on the shipping.
It may be true. When I was working on the first edition of the slab book I was told by NGC they they did use an anti scratch coating (like they...
The rims aren't "cut back" at all. Encasements are made using an aluminum blank with a hole in it and the cent is placed in it and loaded into a...
I believe all the small letters would be considered to be rev of 39. It differentiates them from the 1840 medium letters with is actually a New...
If your interested your 09 is a Cohen 6, rarity 1 the 1810 is a Cohen 1, the only variety for the year. Also a Rarity 1 piece.
It's just another example of an incompetent government working at cross purposes with itself. Back before 2000, other than cities with major mass...
It is a cent in a bezel that has been broken off whatever it was attached to peeling back an edge on the bezel.
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