Great detail in the feathers, LIBERTY and the diamonds. For the price you paid I think you did great. Details, schmeetails.
Looking at the date on the real one, it's not even close.
Well 5 grams of silver is worth almost $2.75. They are selling this for $29.95 and less $29.07 by wire.
What were the circumstances when you acquired the 1955? Read this from the Lincoln Cent Resource: "Check for two faint die scratches leading...
What is the story behind this coin? Where did you get it? How much did you pay? If you bought it on EBay for a song, it is fake. If it is from...
Kentucky, you can use the "tare" to increase your scale by .6 of a gram, and it would show a zinc 2.5g 1983 as 3.1grams.
Does the improper alloy mix prevent it from straight grading?
Photo of coin. Photo of coin on scale that has not been recalibrated +6/10 of a gram.
We haven't seen the reverse, I am more in the $10 arena.
Blanks are cool. I have a copper one. That one looks like zinc. (Weigh it) I don't know why there is a higher premium for one without a rim. You...
I don't think it goes away, you just learn to live with it, and it gets a little lighter over time. Back to the thread: It's one thing to have a...
CWR Customer wrapped rolls as opposed to bank wrapped/ Loomis wrapped.
Yes but other people are doing the same thing, so you are going through their returns. The number of good coins are finite, and the numbers are...
Don't give the counterfeiters any more good ideas.
Things like that are almost always damaged. There are lists of mint errors with photos. It doesn't hurt to brush up.
People will often take those out and collect them. But if they are not silver, might as well spend it at face value. The old Panamanian coins are...
Kentucky is correct about it not being legal tender. However, the coins are interchangeable. "As the balboa is interchangeable with the US dollar,...
Seems to have doubling on many of the letters. E Pluribus Unum especially.
I recently did some experimentation with acetone. Some things improved. Some did not. It didn't hurt the coins. (24 hours) In this case you don't...
It's a waste of time and money as there is still plenty of life left in that bill before it needs to be destroyed. Your company is not stopping...
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