Not worth a monetary premium, but a good coin to keep as a teaching piece,
The S looks like machine doubling damage, but the upper left serif of the U looks good.
removed from encasement
Very good, but you mean dime collar.
First one is machine doubling, I would think the second is a form of die deterioration similar to the die deterioration that causes the raised...
My impression as well.
They are world coins. Hawaii was an independent Kingdom at the time the coins were struck, not a US territory
Agreed, all fake and all base metal.
Just look at one of the 69's they're a lot easier to find and they look the same.
The right edge of the scroll is directly below the junction of the AM of America. Rev's that match that or are very close are E, H,K, M, & O....
Surfaces are porous enough to give it a details grade for environmental damage.
The email should be time stamped when it was sent and when it was received. How long did it take to get to you? (Sometimes emails can vanish for...
The first slab used by ANACS from late Nov 1989 through early 1990 had the underprinting on the label Official ANA Official Grading. It also has...
So did I. (Can't believe I did that.)
Do you understand why I want to see clear images of the reverse? Do you know what I am checking for? In other words I am trying to eliminate a...
That is a cud. Note the corresponding weakness of the denticals on the obv to the right of star 8.
I'm thinking O-108
OK that tells me 1 they did cut the mistrike down and 2 my attribution of the undertype is wrong. It isn't struck on an off-centered C-2, it is...
No extra value, 1907 indians with Longacre doubling are not unusual.
The Sac dollars did not have rim lettering (Except for a few error coins in 2007 ) Rim lettering on the Sac did not start until it changed to the...
Separate names with a comma.