Certification is NOT needed. Knowledge is. How do the certification companies know if a coin is genuine? Knowledge. People are basically lazy, and...
Those albums sound like the only kind I would be able to tolerate. I hate when albums are incomplete.
Kurt, what about the years that have Satin Mint Sets? Do your sets not include the circulation strike coins from these years? Did you do the same...
With all of the recent discussion of breaking up Mint sets, I was wondering if anyone else here collected them as I do. I have a complete set...
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There is another reason why counterfeits are not perfect examples. The way I was taught was that when a counterfeiter encounters his own product...
while I am neither of those two gentlemen, I believe that #1 is PMD. #3 I am not so sure of. My guess is that it could be misaligned dies or a...
It was produced by a private mint and may only be worth the price of the gold melt, which is $301.80 today. The coin weighs 10grams.
Am I hallucinating, or does this coin have lines all over the surface moving in 15,000 different directions. This is NOT what metal flow looks...
If I am not mistaken, lapping is a process used to polish metal.
IMHO no UNC Susan B is worth $7.50
This is a common trick used by slab counterfeiters. Match your counterfeit coin to a genuine slab, and the uninformed as well as those too lazy to...
If the lines are raised, those are die polish lines on the reverse. The easiest way to understand this is to look at how the coin is...
I hope that you either didn't pay much, or that you can return it, because as physicsfan3.14 said, the slab is fake, and likely the coin is as well.
if Mint Sets are different, as in something to get into, then please explain the reason that the 1983-P Washington Quarter in MS-66 (not available...
and how many people do you think were saving multiple coins for each state? Now take the total minted and divide by 140 Million. How many per...
The only person with estimates this high is the guy selling them on HSN, and he is only trying to hype their desirability. 10 Million is more the...
Or maybe the interest plunged because people were disappointed with the quality of the strike of the Dime and it's size (it was supposed to be the...
that date is brutal, Frank! Did you identify this as a counterfeit because it didn't match the ones you had as a kid???
I have an 1838 version of this same coin! It has a lettered edge as well, but for this date, that is not correct.
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