Yep. Mint errors should be a known way it can happen. You have to know how it could happen at the mint, otherwise assume PMD and move on....
I find the hair very interesting. You never know what others will also think is cool, but even if they don't, who cares! You had fun with it. I...
I agree. Compared to a whole lot of ancient coins they are scarcish at best. Its the artificial demand of people collecting the "12 Caesars" of...
Um, a local dealer. He calls me when he has such stuff. I paid $330 for a $5. About a month earlier I bought a nice AU 1878 S eagle for $680.
I know its the principality of Samitan, that is the tamgha. The obverse script is Sogdian, a close relative to Farsi. Its all consonants, no...
That is what I meant. A decent AU of a common $5 is darned near melt anyway. I just bought one in high XF in the 1880's for about $10 over melt....
There isn't much of a premium for a 1903 for a really nice AU/BU coin. Is there a reason you want a more worn one? All coins deserve a home, but...
I agree with others. Tree is wrong, lettering is wrong, Judea is wrong, everything about this coin would not fool an ancient collector, let alone...
Way better and artistically interesting than the same old frontal view of the monument. I believe sales and public appreciation has reflected this.
I am not sure about the disdain shown here. I like some of the designs, I just find these new ones very pedestrian. I do not care how "scarce",...
I am with Treehugger. Very pedestrian designs. Why don't they try more items like the Mount Rushmore one? Be creative, look at items from a...
I think its a pathetic concept myself. All the mint can come up with for interesting products their customer may want to buy is rehashing 100 year...
So it looks like it will be $435 when released? Did I read that right?
Just like cars, the "model year" keeps getting earlier and earlier to try to capture a little more early demand. The weird thing is, in coins...
Hmm, thanks for that. I had no idea it was a known thesis. I guess its true, nothing in life is very original. :)
I agree with Doug. I have a 1913 Type I that looks just like it. I pulled it out of a manila envelope in which it had been placed maybe 40 years...
I would doubt it's Mr. Carr's. He usually produces upstanding, numismatically related items. I saw the "Arkansas" one for sale at coin shows over...
I would say the dies were owned by the FORMER Federal government, but that government dissolved when the South seceded. The inheritor of this...
I have always contended something around the 6th-7th century happened around the world to change things forever, and that is my cutoff of what is...
Coin photos are tough. I agree, though, that the seller somewhat misrepresented that coin. I bought my avatar a few weeks ago. In hand, where...
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