With the ANA grading guide it also depends on what edition of the book you are using. The standards have dropped from the first edition to the...
They are. They only did the Genuine slabs for about a year. The way I learned Net Grading in EAC that was how it worked. The Net grade equaled...
Put it in your pocket and carry it around with your other change for two or three years and wear it down to AG - G. That should give you smooth...
No that is a CAM.
The 1945 shows a small clipped planchet, the 1979 shows post mint damage.
Just PMD. As you seem to realize someone put another cent on it and hit it causing the rim to dent the 69-D.
I've never seen any claim to a 43/2 struck on a coppernickel planchet. As to the wieght tolerances they are exactly the same on both the...
If you want to make SURE your package arrives, send it Registered. Delivery may be slow but it is almost a certainty that it WILL eventually get...
Tolerance was 5 Grams +/- .194 grams Like I said your coin is very slightly out of tolerance, about .03 grams heavy
That sounds like the recovery story of the Toven specimen not the Smithsonian specimen.
How would you spot one in a group of steel cents? It would be slightly smaller, weak or partially missing rims, most likely part of the lettering...
If you are old enough you remember "penny candy" called such because you could buy several pieces for a penny (cent).
Or members of the committee on coinage and banking at the time since they were the ones who received them. When one of them finally left office...
Those figures are not the cost of production, they are the metal values. When cost of production is included the nickel cost 11 cents and the...
As I mentioned during the war and up until the early 1870's precious metal coins did not circulate in this country. They were either hoarded or...
Probably a valid question. Years ago when Coin World ran the same group of coins through each of the TPG's they were all fairly close on the MS...
No. it not ironic, reasonable. The half dollars started slowly disappearing in 1962 and 63 because the value of silver was rising high enough to...
And neither PCGS nor NGC are as accurate on varieties/attributions as ANACS and SEGS are, and SEGS is better than ANACS except possibly on VAM's.
Keep reading there are other standard terms in the auction house contracts that most people never pay attention to. One of my favorites which is...
I believe there are probably more cents on silver dimes in 1943 than any other year. The weights were much closer that year and they couldn't be...
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