Lots of interesting posts but no images of a holed Capped Bust half? My only half dollar remotely relevant was made into a watch fob, a perhaps...
The ones holed near the rim and in a specific location such that the coin would hang a certain way, one would think had to have been done for a...
I'm not ruling out hanky-panky on the sender or recipient side (cough cough insurance fraud cough cough) but we have very few details here. $100k...
I think we're trying way too hard to make something out of nothing here.
I've never heard of or seen a deformed date punch. The die is softened by annealing, not the punch. There's a raised lip of metal visible along...
Sure, but I don't think it's realistic to think that a FedEx employee is standing around googling package addresses.
Just a hunch, but I'm guessing they can see what it's insured for and have no clue what's actually in there. It's difficult for me to envision a...
A strike through wouldn't move that much metal sideways. The bottom of the 5 got closed off and the lower 8 loop isn't round anymore.
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This one may be an even later die state, considering the several additional cracks. Just poking around Heritage....
Gosh that reverse die is something else. The obverse die isn't doing too well either.
Hard to rate a beheading scene as "appealing" but I gave it an 8 for the interesting factor.
Arrived a week ago, already posted in Barber thread so I'm repeating it here. Fairly uncommon Obv Type 2/Rev Type 2 combo. I enjoy it when a coin...
I don't even bother going there anymore. So much blather... My first thought was also "incomplete planchet punch" but I had no idea what to call...
Some of my favorite designs, thanks for sharing.
Oh brother. I guess I'll get some good deals then.
Completely agree. It originated for large cents by saying a "70" would be worth 70 times a "1". Kind of like Fahrenheit mixing salt and ice water...
I'm not sure why it matters. If there was an unusual number of them in this hoard, you might have a theory about where they were distributed. But...
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