I have a 1923 Monroe Doctrine commemorative half dollar in a PCGS slab that says it was smoothed. It was lightly bead blasted in a few areas to...
Is that a crude term for a tooth pick?
What you are showing is not an error, it is a die crack. Errors are damages to the planchet during striking, like off-center, wrong planchet,...
I would leave them as they are - way too many "shipwreck" coins on the market, and they are over priced. You won't be able to identify the ship...
Huh, I guess I'm the exception. Never wanted one, and if it was given to me it would be in the next auction from an anonymous seller. Then I...
I'm for press adjustment strike too.
You can wash with liquid dish soap and water, rinse with distilled water, then PAT dry with a sodt cotton cloth. NEVER, EVER RUB!!!
Alsp, amy bag marks that cross any of the steps eliminate it from the designation.
Damaged COINS are bad, but damaged DIES are good. The OP asked about a coin struck from damaged dies.
That is right. Laura Sperber at Legend has become a rockstar in Numismatics, and the Penny Lady is no slouch.
Like was mentioned, the promoter/issuer didn't pay for the serial number option. If they don't use a serial number, then they can print...
They ship coins back from grading in cardboard boxes. I use these - I just cut the senators away and had pieces of craft foam in so they hold all...
VF20
The Type-2 and Type-3 1804 Dollars are the same sort of thing. None of them are really coins, because they were never monetized by being...
And in David Hall's instance, employed.
Or slab the damaged coins as "Fantasy Error" pieces.
I guess these (terminated!) are the same kind of "people skills" they seem to have for their customer service.
Looks like it might be some kind of French Spielmark or game counter of 5 units.
Ya, it was struck at the U.S. Mint! I have had this problem previously on the 2009 UHR $20. The QC at the U.S. mints is horrible - nothing...
It seems to. The steel is a lot "stickier" than bronze/brass, and the blanks needed to be coated (usually with a little oil) so that they didn't...
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