Yes only the 1913 nickels are even worse. in that case they not only used government presses and dies but they also used government owned...
A receipt from where? I would guess you are assuming the coins will be for sale in the mint giftshops and the DC kiosk over the counter on the...
It isn't illegal to mutilate a reeded edge coin, you can mutilate it to your hearts content. What is illegal is to do so with fraudulent intent....
1967 was the last year they used silver on the 1 Fr, 1968 were copper Nickel. There might be a slight chance an old planchet could have been...
And now the entire listing is gone so ebay did act.
I was not implying that the colors were altered after they left the Bank of Latvia, but that whoever does the coloration of the coins after the...
They should be at the show. They can't slab as first day of issue as they won't be available at the show till the third day of issue. But they...
They do guarantee them in writing now. For their first twenty years their guarantees (PCGS and NGC) never said one word about authenticity....
Which two? I know PCGS does now (used to be they didn't), but who is the other? I know it isn't NGC, ANACS, or ICG. NGC and ANACS both...
The fact the bank receives the coins with the colors o them does not mean for sure they were applied at the mint. They could very well have been...
You were allowed to keep up to $100 worth of non-coin gold. US coins deemed "rare and unusual" could be kept in any amount except for quarter...
The mint still makes more profit form seigniorage than from collector coins, but not by much. The mint is still required to break even on the...
Actually I believe he pulled all the listings himself. I checked the completed auctions and there were a bunch of fake Indians there and on each...
If you consider a die crack to be an error, then almost every shield nickel is an error coin. I don't see die cracks as errors, they are just an...
Possibly butterfield.
Thanks, that is what I suspected. I'll have to try and locate a copy of Tompkin.
There is also a crack from the rim thru the G-bottom of the O - across the top of the cross - to the R.
I own the Peterson book and I'd like to have a chance to use a Tompkin to see how it compares. The Peterson book is nice but I actually find it a...
And some like the look of the coin.
Well the Breen early date book is available online, but frankly the images are not good and I think you would find it very difficult to use....
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