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Any part of the legends or design can fall victim to grease filled die problems; they are just more noticeable when they completely obscure one or...
It looks incuse to me, which would be damage from inside or outside the mint. A die gouge would be incuse on the die, and standing out in relief...
[img] to CoinTalk. There were two problems with your image formatting. First of all, there is a forum limit of 10 images per post. Secondly,...
Well, here's the official explanation, direct from the [img]. I'm sure we are all in total agreement with the part I emphasized. ;)
That my friends is the key. The lowest valued coin available sets the rounding point. When we had 1/2¢ coins, we could round to 5 mils. Now...
No you're not. Most of my smileys come from public domain websites, and I don't claim any copyright in the others, so use it with my blessing. ;)
todestan answered that in Post # 7, above.
You realize, of course, that it was the general public which obeyed Gresham's Law and removed the worth-more-than-face-value silver from...
[IMG] Especially when you stumble across someone teaching a "better" method for sorting 1982 cents than simply comparing weights. Just...
One solution would be the return of tax tokens. In the early-middle 20th Century many states produced tax tokens in both metallic and paper...
I'm really, really, really bad at Thai dates. Fiftypee easily dated the one in the other thread, so perhaps he'll spot this one and come to our aid.
Well, SSCA is a new one on me, but apparently it is a business name used by the Morgan Mint, which I have always considered to be just a tiny cut...
And I assure you that the only reason your post that generated that comment was not deleted, with a warning to you about personal attacks, is that...
Your posting really has me confused.:confused: The WW II steel cents had no copper content that could show through surface scratches on the zinc...
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Too bad you missed yesterday's thread.
A whole bunch. ;)
Please do not post the same topic on more than one forum.
Did you guys ever hear about buying old wine in original corked bottles, for hundreds or even thousands of dollars? Any experienced wine...
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