Interesting, I've never seen a nickel struck on clad stock before!
Yes it would. the bridge of the nose and the area around the eye is the shallowest area of relief on the bust. as the surface of the die is...
Something else you have to consider is that you were talking about an early large cent, a coin often collected by die variety. Those die...
I wonder how they selected which 35 people would get the coins.
Possible die over polishing? Looks like Lincoln has a "broken nose". Heavy metal flow lines behind the neck. Neck looks like it is fading out....
I am seeing a couple of things. The die is getting old and worn (the FG and the die deterioration doubling on the letters around the rim), and in...
How else is he "gonna get you".
I also use a scale with a .0001 gram resolution. I don't control for temperature or even use distilled or deionized water, but I don't consider...
Bingo, they were to be for display. The coins are dated 2015, but the anniversary was THIS year, and they wanted to display them this year.
If you want high precision then yes it would probably be better done in a lab, but if you are just trying to get that first decimal place, that...
If you are careful with your weighings, and make sure you don't trap any air bubbles on the coin when you get your wet weight you should be able...
Extended soak in acid. The acid attacks the copper core more rapidly than the coppernickel clad layers. That is why the they extend out beyond...
I suspect that as well, and they simply had them slabbed for the display. Puts them in a protective holder with a label that explains that they...
It would only take a slight change in thickness (about 4%) of the 65/35 coin to give you the same weight for both coins. For example if the 88/12...
Proof, yes. Type? Hard to tell from those images but it looks like it MIGHT be a type II!
So he did, don't know why I saw 1000.
Coin World Almanac Lists the weight for every US coin in grains and grams plus the tolerance range in both units. Also lists diameter,...
I think that must be the wrong clip.
By the time they went to using the special sets of the four coins there weren't any silver one or 2 pence coins in circulation. The four pence...
For at least the past two years Heritage has conducted the world coin auction at the Chicago International Show, and I know there is a similar...
Separate names with a comma.
