You are both right. Both Mint Directors Snowden and Linderman were responsible for restrikes, and fantasy patterns being produced either for sale...
Back when they were in circulation they were just five ordinary dollar notes worth $1 each. You get a bundle of crisp new note at the bank,...
I'm sure the story is probably true, I saw the reports on the Dutch bank informing their depositors that they would no longer be able to get...
The 5 million was a private sale from Legend to an unnamed collector. I don't even buy that that 1794 was a presentation piece. I think the die...
That's the first problem there. It assumes that all the silver coined still exists as coin. Actually over the years coins would wear out and be...
But the last time it sold it went for $5 million. No the lowest graded coin is the McDermott specimen and it is the only one that actually shows...
Use of a counting machine would not render a MS coin circulated. (Although it can cause damage that would make a MS coin ungradable.) Hobo has...
That's just it, I don't see any reeding on the first coin. The edge seems to be completely rounded.
And add to what gxseries said the fact that I have seen a couple of dozen of this supposedly rare coin in the past month or so. there are a LOT...
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Depends on what you would call the grade. The catalog shows from $50 in Good to $200 in VF. Detail shows high but it is obviously a dug piece...
On the bonded cap it looks like the first coin was a broadstrike, then the second coin was struck in collar and bonded to the cap. Then the pair...
The first coin is from the Emperor Hsien-feng 1851 - 1861 with a type C obv and the reign title Hsien-feng Yuan Pao. The rev picture is upside...
Congratulations, the second one is what is called a "Wedding coin" They were used from at least the 1600's through the early 20th century (And...
This is S-57. LIBERTY is down close to the forehead. that makes it after S-44 On the reverse ES are close together as are the ends of the...
It sounds like you are saying it has a rotated die error, something not too unusual on the middle date cents, especially the earlier ones. If you...
As xGAJx says they can't pay retail, and when you take the normal discount from retail that a dealer would normally pay, you will find that that...
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I answered this on another forum. The silver went into the strategic stockpile and was declared to be surplus in the early 80's. The GSA ran...
I hear more whining of that type from the collector community than the dealer community. And you can't really blame the mint for all the...
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