I'm not sure where you think there is tooling, which I understand to mean artificially enhancing the design elements, particularly at their edges....
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Good catch CT. :thumb: Unfortunately, based on past experience, I have to offer you odds of eight to five and half your money back if you...
[img] aboard skipper. :D In overly siimplified terms:Proofs are specially struck for collectors rather than for circulation. Polished planchets...
Tough as it is to see detail on cellphone pix, the hole does appear to have a rim, which would indicate that it was originally struck with the...
Compare the title, description and itemization in >>this winner's listing<<. :desk: :headbang: :eek:
Egyptian coins are dated in the AH (After Hejira) Muslim religious calendar, dating from Mohammed's flight from Mecca. There is a full page...
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If Bank of America - like most major banks - will only convert currency for account holders there is an alternative. In the terminal at your...
Barring a major worldwide depression, the values expressed in dollars will certainly continue to rise. Whether or not there will be true value...
[img] to CoinTalk marychain. For US coins the best quick reference is A Guide Book of United States Coins, an annual publication commonly known as...
All of his sales seem to have terminated - unfortunately by people making successful bids. :( The whole sad story
It's been said many times on this forum - the definition of a collectible set is what the collector makes it. You are far from alone in...
[img] to CoinTalk skibum. The Maria Theresa's have a wealth of history that every world coin collector should become familiar with. Here is a...
Stop shouting. The only valid reason for "making old coins look old again" is to conceal the fact that they have been cleaned, in order to sell...
KM#105a, the copper-nickle version is listed in Krause as weighing 21g, even though it has the same diameter of 21mm as KM#105, the nickle...
If this were a poll, my vote would definitely be post-strike damage.
I left Ohio in 1943, but I remember being shocked that our paper sales tax certificates were valueless in California. The memory may be going,...
IMHO the guy/gal is not a collector at all, or he/she wouldn't have come up with this bizarre idea of trying to teach school kids how to scam real...
Wait until 20?? when the small Ike dollars come out - then you can give them a set.:D
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