So would I, OK beat me up over a typo. :) (most people error and write the 18th century coins as 19XX. I deal mostly with 18th century coins...
All 1974 cents are a copper zinc alloy. 95% copper 5% zinc, they used that alloy from 1963 to mid 1982. As for the Y where the T should be, it...
Nothing terms me off faster than a "cutesy catchy name" used to try and stir up interest in a coin.
I'd keep them in the carry on luggage.
Check to see if your camera has a macro setting, use the highest resolution, and crop all the unneeded material out of the picture.
Little too far to travel, but I wish you and your club good luck.
Highly unlikely. At that time planchets tended to be made at the mints where they were struck so there would be no reason for a planchet made in...
For a multiple squeeze hubbed die it would agree it isn't. but for a single squeeze die, it's major. Normally the doubling on a single squeeze...
It is an error, it is a strike through and it appears to either be struck through an off-center dime, or possibly a piece of clad layer that has...
According to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States chapter 97 9705.00.00 there is no duty on "Collections and collectors pieces of...
Looks better on the OP coin. Love that "old silver gray", especially on old silver.
Different trace elements in the gold that come from the source of the gold can cause slightly different tinting to the gold. Serious specialists...
There are no import duties on coins coming into the US and there are no US coins illegal to import (except the 1933 double eagle or a 1794...
Like some of the others, my collection has reached the point for US that $500 won't go far. I might be able to buy one of the more common 1794...
Doesn't hurt the value at all, in fact it it nails down the variety. Massive cracks, should by all rights have a massive cud. Interestingly the...
They do now, and they are usually better than a cheap Iphone picture. But they aren't good enough to make a lot of problems go away. Some sure,...
Yep,until 1971 one two hundred fortieth of a pound. Or in the US originally one nintieth of a New York dollar, and after 1792 two US cents. I...
Only for coins slabbed within the last five years at NGC and the last three at PCGS. Maybe five to seven million of the sixty million coins they...
Sounds like he has found a nice friendly forum where people don't know what they are talking about and freely give confusing and possible...
The "planchet flaw" on the obverse is a die crack that is trying to develop into a retained cud. (there are actually two cracks there, one running...
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