Go to ny bank. Usually folks just bring them in for paper. If your lucky, you could get quite a few. If your unlucky, you could go for weeks...
Generally speaking, if a "clad" layer were missing, the coin would exhibit a weak strike. Your coin looks fully struck. Copper Nickel reacts...
Is Hong Kong supposed to be in this grouping?
I'm still looking for the pictures of this Hong (Yong) Kong Koin. Have they been removed? If so why?
To me, it appears as if someone cut a circle of metal out of that dime, flipped it over and reinserted it. I'd bet a buck that with a little bit...
I personally have no idea and leave these low ball grades for the real experts. The 76 looks like a weakly struck coin to begin with since the...
Good Points. Unfortunately, in the Kennedy Half Dollar Book, Page 12, by James Wiles, his abbreviations section states: MD = Master Die MDD =...
My guess is that UPS contracted to do it cheaper than the USPS via open bidding. I'm with your line of thinking though!
If you're only going to be defensive about prior coins you've posted, then please go away. If you want to learn something then continue reading....
That's an accurate attribution.
Thanks. I was hoping that you had an RDV-006 but its an RDV-001. It's a nice looking coin as well.
Do you think its possible that the coin was placed in the 2x2 after being removed from a PVC Flip? My understanding is that PVC is (was) used in...
This is true. My apology if I misled anybody.
Sorry. You are absolutely right however, mods have the capability of editing posts as shown by the red notations they leave behind. Why can't the...
Maternity Wards?
I think I;'d prefer the thread getting deleted instead of modified.
Chuck, review the facts as they actually occured. Not how you think they occured. Yes, you found the coin but from what I've read regarding this...
You are correct. Olive Oil is used on old copper coins as a cleaning meduim as given a long enough soak, grime picked up from circulation can...
My "Huh?" is aimed at the comment "might be PVC oil from PVC cardboard coin holders." I've never heard of a PVC cardboard coin holder and assumed...
I'm curious. Its obvious, from the giveaway, that the UK still uses plaster casts. I was under the mistaken impression that the UK and the...
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